Patrick A. Bradford, Esq.
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Patrick A. Bradford, Esq. is an accomplished attorney and arts producer. As an attorney, he has worked in the private sector and for city, state, and federal government.
Since 2003, Mr. Bradford has served as a trustee for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He has also served as a trustee for the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Negro Ensemble Company, Shakespeare Society, New Professional Theater, Theater Development Fund, and Theater Communications Group.
In 2009, he founded the arts firm, B. Arts Presenter, which provides highly talented visual and performing artists with the opportunity to work professionally. Through B. Arts, Mr. Bradford was instrumental in bringing the African American painter and sculptor James B. McMillian (1925-) to a larger audience, including co-producing exhibitions of his works across the county.
B. Arts has also produced theater and concerts, including tributes to Paul Robeson and Dorothy Maynor. In 2012. Mr. Bradford produced an original work titled The African American Spiritual at Merkin Hall in New York City, featuring Sherry Boone, Harriett D. Foy, Brandie Sutton, and Darius Frowner, with text by Marcus Gardley.
Mr. Bradford provides pro bono legal counsel to the Classical Theater of Harlem and Project1Voice. His writings on the arts have appeared in the Black theatre and entertainment magazine, Black Masks.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law.