page_title: Brad Mays
section_title: Background and education
hierarchical_section_title: Brad Mays / Background and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Dionysus (Richard Werner) in The Bacchae, directed by Brad Mays, 2000.
context_page_description: Brad Mays is an independent filmmaker and stage director, living and working in Los Angeles, California.
context_section_description: Mays was raised in the Edinburg section of West Windsor Township, New Jersey, attending the local public schools before going to Princeton High School.
  During the early 1970s, Mays became involved in the performing arts during a professional internship at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey. When his family moved  to Maryland in the wake of difficulties resulting from his participation in anti-war demonstrations, Mays became heavily involved in the Baltimore experimental theater scene and, at the age of eighteen, began directing at the Corner Theatre ETC.
  Upon completion of theatre arts studies at Towson University, Mays was formally hired by the Baltimore Theatre Project. In 1982, Mays  moved to New York City, where he began working off-Broadway and, ultimately, produced and directed his first independent feature film, Stage Fright.
caption: Richard Werner as Dionysus  in Brad Mays' independent feature film production of Euripides' The Bacchae, 2000
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