Bruce Leddy

Bruce Leddy is a comedy writer, director, and producer. His credits include the Fox political satire series

The Sundance Channel. It stars David Harbour, Molly Shannon, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Feuerstein

Career

After graduating from Williams College, Leddy started his career at MTV Networks in New York City as a writer for VH1. He quickly became a producer, and joined sister channel MTV where he rose to Senior Producer/Writer. After overseeing studio-based shows and VJ segments, Leddy developed and produced multiple series for the network, including the in-depth artist profile series "MTV Rockumentary," the pilot and first 7 episodes of "MTV Unplugged," and MTV's "Half Hour Comedy Hour."

After 7 years with MTV, Leddy went freelance and formed the production company BLIP Inc. (Bruce Leddy Independent Productions). He continued to work with MTV, producing, writing, and directing one-hour comedy specials financed by the movie studios as promotional vehicles for their films. Several of these starred

muppet holiday movie for Fox broadcast and Sony Home Video called CinderElmo, starring Keri Russell, Oliver Platt, Kathy Najimy, and French Stewart

for which he received a DGA Awards nomination.

During production of an MTV special promoting the Mike Myers TriStar Pictures film "So I Married an Axe Murderer," Leddy was offered the chance to direct his first feature film, a coming of age comedy called Bad With Numbers. The film starred Jason London, Tia Carrere, Jeffrey Tambor, Alexandra Lee, and Zak Orth. Two months before the film was to have a 1200 screen theatrical release, the distributing studio Savoy Pictures went bankrupt and the film was left in limbo. Eventually it was acquired by Trimark Pictures, and under the title My Teacher's Wife aired numerous times on the USA Network, and was released on DVD.

Move to Los Angeles

In 2000, Leddy moved to Los Angeles, and began a directing job at Fox's late night sketch comedy show

MTV Movie Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. He wrote and directed the opening short film for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards, The Pitch (Titanic II), starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and James Cameron. He also directed short films with Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans

when they hosted the VMAs in 2000.

In 2005, Leddy wrote, directed and produced the independent film Shut Up & Sing, an ensemble comedy/drama about a group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group who reunite 15 years later to sing at a friend's wedding. With renowned casting director

Dixie Chicks documentary "Shut Up & Sing". A brief legal skirmish ensued and Leddy was forced to re-title his film, first as Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, and then for international sales purposes, as The Wedding Weekend,^{[citation needed]}. It was acquired by First Look Studios

and released in May 2008 on DVD. In May 2010, the film began airing on The Sundance Channel and is currently available on streaming and AVOD platforms.