Jeff Bragg

About Jeff Bragg

Who is it?: Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Casting Director

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Jeff Bragg was born, is Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Casting Director. Jeff was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin, His Parents Bob and Dorothy Bragg met while they where working as dance instructors and will soon celebrate 60 years of marriage. His Mother raised Jeff and his two siblings Glenn and Susan as a stay at home Mom. Robert worked as salesman and sales trainer until he opened his own company Corporate Learning Center.Around age 4 Jeff was put on one of the neighbor's mini bikes and was able to ride it around until his mother flipped out, that ended the ride for that day but he has had a passion for motorcycles ever since. From Racing Moto X for many years to riding cross country a few times and still riding every chance he gets.After being a ski bum in Vail for a season (Basically a homeless guy with skis) and traveling around the country Jeff settled into a corporate sales job until his position was eliminated. With a small severance and lots of time on his hands he decided to take some Improvisation classes at Dudley Riggs Brave new workshop in MPLS and he was hooked. There He was performing with the Improv Team along with doing local theater and films until he got a gig as a Stand in for Bill Paxton on A Simple Plan where he also met Sam Raimi and Grant Curtis. A few months after the film wrapped Jeff was offered a spot on a Commercial that Sam was going to direct, He moved to LA and never looked back.
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In 2003, Briggs was named software "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young, and in 2004 he was named "CEO of the Year" by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine.

He was awarded the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky and Louis Lane Prizes for Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music (1978, 1979), the Haimsohm Prize for Musical Composition at the University of Memphis (1980),the ASCAP Award for Young Composers (1984), and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (1986).

Biography/Timeline

1978

He was awarded the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky and Louis Lane Prizes for Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music (1978, 1979), the Haimsohm Prize for Musical Composition at the University of Memphis (1980),the ASCAP Award for Young Composers (1984), and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (1986).

1987

Briggs holds a Doctorate in Musical Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois. Briggs' composition teachers included Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner, Donald Freund, and John Melby. His career began in New York City where he composed music for various events, including dance and theater groups. He took a job as game Editor and designer at West End Games where he worked until 1987. He then joined MicroProse Software, where he served as designer, Writer, Composer and Producer, becoming the company's Executive Producer and, finally, its Director of Product Development.

1989

Briggs's music first appeared in a 1989 MicroProse release Sword of the Samurai. Following that, most MicroProse games featured his work. Before working in software entertainment, Briggs' music had already received performances by ensembles internationally in Paris' Pompidou Centre ("Ecliptic"), New York City's Avery Fisher Hall ("Comets"), and in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Illinois ("Adjectives," "Firaxis", "Chimera," "Aurora," and others) as well as various smaller venues in New York and other cities throughout the United States. In 1996, he was awarded US Patent 5,496,962 for a "System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis" used in a product called "CPU Bach".

1996

Briggs left MicroProse in 1996 to co-found Firaxis Games. In a 2004 interview he commented his decision: "Civ II had just come out and MicroProse had been purchased by Spectrum HoloByte. [...] Things had gotten pretty bad. By that time I was Director of product development and they were asking me to do things and tell people things that I just didn't like. I decided that I could do a lot better job running the company than they could, so I left." Briggs then led the design of Civilization III and oversaw the expansion of the company into a major developer of strategy computer games. He also co-designed Colonization and Civilization II, as well as composing much of the original music in Civilization IV. He negotiated the acquisition of Firaxis Games by Take Two Interactive in 2005, became its Chairman in spring of 2006, and left Firaxis in November of that year.

2003

In 2003, Briggs was named software "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young, and in 2004 he was named "CEO of the Year" by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine.

2009

In 2009, the Westfield Symphony Orchestra presented the world premiere of his composition "Celebration for Orchestra".