Kevin Bray

From cops to corporate raiders, imploding morning show hosts to families defining themselves and their race, Kevin creatively travels between many different characters, shows, films and commercials, imbuing each work with multidimensionality and stylistic nuance.

Starting in music videos after graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Kevin worked with artists including Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, Brandy, Jessica Simpson, Celine Dion, and the late, great Whitney Houston.

Kevin’s feature films have been opportunities to collaborate with top-tier talent like Dwayne Johnson on Walking Tall and to direct culturally resonant, influential work like All About the Benjamins.

In television, Kevin has helped shape the dysfunctional families of Showtime’s Shameless, ABC’s four-time Emmy Award-nominated Black-ish, HBO’s Succession, the fractured professional families of FX’s The Americans, and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show.

Kevin’s extensive television directing credits include Insecure, Snowfall, Run, Dear White People, Grown-ish, How to Get Away with Murder, Empire, The Killing and Loot, a workplace comedy and re-coming-of-age story, starring Emmy Award winner Maya Rudolph, the irreverent rap-to-riches dramedy Rap Sh!t, and the FX limited series The Patient, starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson, about a psychotherapist who finds himself held by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.

Kevin has directed several highly anticipated series, including the complex comedy Unprisoned for Hulu, starring Kerry Washington as a single mother and therapist reunited with her previously incarcerated father, Delroy Lindo. He directed and executive-produced the FX limited series Clipped, starring Ed O’Neill and Laurence Fishburne, dramatizing the downfall of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling amid the team’s push for a championship under coach Doc Rivers. Kevin directed HBO’s The Penguin, starring Colin Farrell, which follows Oz Cobb’s ruthless rise through Gotham’s criminal underworld., Bray directed HBO’s I Love LA, a comedy about a clientless talent agent who reconnects with her ex-best friend and influencer, getting pulled back into a messy, ambition-fueled friend group in Los Angeles, starring Rachel Sennott alongside Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and Josh Hutcherson.

Kevin continues to lead by example with his own success and by championing more inclusive stories, characters, and working positions in an evolving industry, celebrating and fostering diversity. Kevin’s extensive resume as a commercial director has placed him behind the camera on campaigns for Nike, Puma, Verizon, Gap, Old Spice, and Questrade.