CREATIVE DIRECTOR | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | CULTURAL STRATEGIST
Chad Shlosser
Building cultural relevance through original media, music and live experiences.
Photo by: Errol Colandro
ABOUT
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Chad Shlosser is an award-winning creative director, executive producer and cultural strategist working across music, film, media and live experience.
Over more than two decades, his work has generated billions of streams and plays across major entertainment platforms, bringing him together with Grammy-winning artists, Hall of Fame
inductees, Oscar-winning filmmakers, global brands and some of the most distinctive creative
voices in entertainment.
Today, Chad works at the intersection of entertainment, culture and place, helping brands,
destinations and entertainment companies turn ideas into cultural properties. His work spans
original films and series, artist collaborations, live programming, recording projects, strategic partnerships and intellectual property designed to create both cultural relevance and long-term
value.
His approach combines big-picture creative direction with hands-on execution, from identifying
the original idea and assembling the right creative partners to producing the work and bringing
it into the world.
Chad is also a founder and executive at Big Name Media, a film, music and publishing company developing and producing original entertainment across multiple platforms.
To discuss a potential collaboration, contact chadshlosser@gmail.com.
Photo by: Errol Colandro
SELECTED WORK
Over two decades of work across music, entertainment, brands and original media, from award-winning films and major recording artists to live experiences and original IP.
Featured: Cardboard Sessions for Ernest Packaging...
Cardboard Sessions
Original Media | Music | Live Experiences
An original performance and recording platform bringing artists together in unexpected environments for intimate, authentic performances. Cardboard Sessions combines artist relationships, music production, filmmaking, brand partnerships and original media into a repeatable cultural property.
Role: Creative Producer / Music Producer / Mixing Engineer / Artist Relations
The Weight of Speed: The Robert Wickens Story
The Weight of Speed: The Robert Wickens Story
Feature Documentary (2026)
The story of professional racing driver Robert Wickens and his
extraordinary journey following the devastating crash that changed
his life and career.
Chad served as an executive producer on the documentary alongside his
business partners, Michael Johnson and Tom Player as well as Mark Wahlberg
and his team at Unrealistic Ideas. He also composed and produced the original
score for the film.
The project brings together documentary storytelling, professional
motorsports and an intensely personal story of resilience, identity and
the drive to compete again.
Role: Executive Producer / Original Score
Medic One
Medic One
Original Television Series | In Development
Before paramedics became a fixture of American life, a small group in Seattle had to
prove they could save people doctors couldn't reach in time.
Inspired by the true story of Seattle's groundbreaking Medic One program, the series
follows the firefighters, physicians and families at the center of a radical experiment
that helped redefine emergency medicine in America.
Set against 1970s Seattle, Medic One combines high-stakes rescues with the
intensely personal lives of the people building a system that had never existed before.
Innovation comes with consequences, and every breakthrough forces these men and
women to confront the physical and emotional cost of becoming the first generation
expected to bring the emergency room into the streets.
Created by Chad Shlosser and developed with Nick Richey and Zach Mann of Halfway Crooks Entertainment, in partnership with the Medic One Foundation.
Role: Creator / Writer / Original Score
The Green Rush
The Green Rush
Original Television Series | In Development
Before cannabis became an industry, Venice Beach was already living the future.
Inspired by true events, The Green Rush is a scripted series set inside the music,
cannabis and creative underground of Venice Beach beginning in 2005, when weed
was still illegal, musicians could still afford to live blocks from the ocean, and an
eccentric group of friends found themselves at the edge of a cultural revolution none
of them realized was coming.
But the series is only the beginning.
Chad is developing The Green Rush as a living entertainment property, including the
revival of the Bliss brand and original fictional bands that will release real music,
perform live and tour outside the series. The world of the show will extend into music,
consumer products, live experiences and cultural collaborations.
Currently in development with Bob Yari's Magenta Light Studios, with showrunner Chris Buongiorno (Beef, Skeleton Crew, Spider-Man) attached alongside Executive Producer Michael Johnson of Big Name Media.
Role: Creator / Writer / Original Score
Payola
Payola
Feature Documentary | In Pre-Production
The music business stopped calling it payola. That doesn't mean the game disappeared.
From envelopes of cash and radio programmers to playlists, algorithms, influencers,
streaming farms and digital promotion, Payola investigates the systems that determine
which artists get heard, who gets buried and what influence really costs in the modern
music industry.
Developed by Big Name Media as a follow-up to the producing team's Netflix #1
documentary series Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, the film connects one of the
industry's oldest scandals to a new ecosystem where the mechanisms of influence
have become harder to see, harder to regulate and potentially more powerful than ever.
Featuring access to artists, executives and insiders from across the music business.
Role: Executive Producer / Original Score
Boundary Pass
Boundary Pass
Original Scripted Series | In Development
At the edge of two nations, one family builds a home in a place where almost everyone
is passing through.
In 1894, the Harrow family becomes the first permanent residents of remote Patos
Island, a government outpost at the center of Boundary Pass between the United States
and Canada.
Through the eyes of young Emily Harrow, the series enters a rarely depicted American
frontier, one defined not by horses and deserts, but by storm-tossed seas, fishing fleets,
steamships, Coast Salish travelers, smugglers, government agents and strangers
carrying secrets between nations.
When tragedy fractures the Harrow family, Emily's fight to protect the only home she
has left begins a transformation that will ultimately make her one of the most mysterious and influential figures on the frontier.
Role: Creator / Writer
MUSIC + ARTISTS
Billy F Gibbons - "Hardware" (LP)
Role: Writer, Producer, Engineer, Guitars, Bass
Polyphia - "G.O.A.T." (Single)
Role: Recording Engineer
Slash - "Orgy of the Damned" (LP)
Role: Tracking Engineer, Guitars & Vocals w/Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) & Paul Rodgers (Bad Company)
Billy Ray Cyrus - "Change My Mind" (LP)
Role: Engineer, Vocals
Harry Marshall - "Falling Into That Life" (LP)
Role: Writer, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
The Chronicles of Israfel: TOME II
Role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Bri Schillings - "Soul Riders" (LP)
Role: Producer, Engineer, Guitars, Bass, Mandolin
Illumination Road - "Creeper" (Single)
Role: Writer, Producer, Engineer, Bass, Vocals
Team Sleep - "Woodstock Sessions" (LP)
Role: Tracking Engineer
Saudade - "Shadows & Light" (EP)
Role: Tracking Engineer
Brett Copeland - "Don't Fight It" (Single)
Role: Writer, Producer, Engineer, Guitars, Bass
Angie Bruyere - "Lost You To The Canyon" (LP)
Role: Producer, Engineer, Bass, Guitars, Mixing
And Much More...
GALLERY
CLIENTS (LISTED)
MUSICAL ARTISTS
Velvet Revolver - Slipknot - Fleetwood Mac - Blake Shelton - Guns N Roses - Joe Walsh - Slash - Billy Ray Cyrus - Rüfüs Dü Sol - Cage The Elephant - Paul Rodgers (Bad Company/Queen) - Blondie - Reignwolf - Marcus King - Dogstar - Meg Myers - Usher - 5 Seconds of Summer - LP - ZZ Top - The Kooks - Rebelution - The Dandy Warhols - Return To Dust - Terry Reid - Brian Ray (Paul McCartney) - The Barbarians of California - The Hu - Team Sleep - Saudade - Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead) - Slash - Billy F Gibbons - Cory Henry - Deadland Ritual - John 5 (Rob Zombie) - Polyphia - Steven Tyler - Kyle Gass - King Shelter - Razorlight - Duff McKagan - Kings of Chaos - Crosses ††† - Scott Weiland - Evil Island - Antiquant - Angie & The Deserters - Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) -Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) - Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses) - Chevelle - Corey Taylor (Slipknot) - Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead) - Jackson Browne - Gary Louris (The Jayhawks) - Motopony - GRiZ - Chino Moreno (Deftones) - Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme) - Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses) - Scars On Broadway - Robby Krieger (The Doors) - Jeff Baxter (Steely Dan) - Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) - The Used - Thrice - Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath) -
SG Goodman - Tristan Lake Leabu - The Dirty Diamond - Angie Bruyere and many others...
LABELS / STUDIOS / BRANDS
Universal Music Group - Island Records - Warner Music Group - Def Jam Records - Red Bull Records - Jack Daniel's - NBC - Disney - The NFL - Unrealistic Ideas - Tradition Pictures - D'Angelico Guitars - Fender - Ernie Ball - Ernest Packaging - Supro Amps - The NBA - Lionsgate Films - Ritual Film Co. - Tim Burton - Samuel L Jackson - Verizon Wireless - Chrysler - South Music - Varitalk - Transformers - Pavel Tsatsouline - John Madden - Activision - EA Sports - Hustler - The Real Housewives - The Today Show - Coors Light - Mr Peanut - Theo Von - Burton - The X Games - Signal Snowboards - Cardboard Sessions - and many more...