Brandon Rainey is a writer, director, author, national speaker, and arts education specialist. Following graduation from Morehouse College, his career started in education as a Theater & English teacher. Those early years in education led to winning awards from Center Theater Group, Chase Bank students winning 1st place in city-wide theater competitions & Inner-City Barack Obama Award. Following that he served as the Artistic Director of a Charter School serving 15 schools and would later turn a passion project into a 501c3 non-profit (CBG Arts) where he currently is the Executive Director serving various schools in LAUSD & the City of Inglewood.Artistically Rainey's work has been on a plethora of community and professional stages. One of the greatest highlights was directing the Opening Act of the Michael Jackson Tribute that also featured Quincy Jones, The Jackson Family, Justin Bieber & Debbie Allen. He also directed the opening act at the Kelly Price Concert. After the death of George Floyd, his most recent play "Hello America" was called upon to do a virtual reading at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute. He served as the Assistant Director for 2 episodes of the Emmy Award winning show "Giants". As a speaker, he has traveled nationally using his gifts and talents to educate, encourage and empower over 60,000 youth and educators with Sandy Hook Promise as their Training Manager. His Ted X Talk “Lifeguard on Duty” is currently on YouTube, and he is constantly called on as a motivational speaker and audience facilitator for Center Theater Group. His book "Man Laws 101" (An interactive experience to equip, empower and encourage men of all ages; and the women who raise, date or marry them) released April 2022Some of his original plays include NAACP Act-So Winning "A Moment Of Silence", "Born to Reign", "Feeling Good", "Dating Game", “Why We Sing” musical inspired by the music of Kirk Franklin, Hello America", "2 MAAD Citiez" (Ran at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and UCLA) and ''Flashing Lights'' the new musical set to the music of Kanye West which brought more than 3,000 people out to the theater during its first weekend. He has directed plays & musicals such as “Fences”, “Lion King”, “Romeo & Juliet” (featured on ABC news), “A Raisin In The Sun”, “Jungle Book”, “Up The Down Staircase”, “The Crucible”, “Song For Coretta”, “In The Blood”, “Brothers Size”, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” & “Annie”.