Brad Falchuk

Brad Falchuk is one of those behind-the-scenes heavyweights who shaped what prestige TV horror and drama even look like in the 21st century. His partnership with Ryan Murphy is genuinely remarkable — together they built Nip/Tuck's slick surgical darkness, then swung wildly into Glee's jazz-hands optimism, then launched American Horror Story, which basically invented the limited-season anthology format as a mainstream hit. Scream Queens showed he could do camp comedy, Pose was genuinely groundbreaking for LGBTQ+ representation, and the 9-1-1 franchise proved he can do crowd-pleasing procedurals too. Not many writers can credibly operate across that many tones and genres. The Newton, Massachusetts kid who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges ended up reshaping network and cable TV in ways most people don't even realize because they're too busy binging the shows.

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Name (English)

Brad Falchuk

Name (Japanese)

ブラッド・ファルチャック

Reading

ぶらっど・ふぁるちゃっく

Born

March 1, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / writer / director / executive producer / showrunner

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

University

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Falchuk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315750

Tags

• Massachusetts
• screenwriter
• writer
• director

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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