Joseph Bradford (playwright)
# Joseph Bradford (playwright)

White Bostonian Joseph Bradford (1843–1886) was an American playwright who most famously helped write a landmark production, Out of Bondage, the first African American musical comedy, with Pauline Hopkins and the Hyers Sisters, debuting in 1876. The production featured Sam Lucas, a famous minstrel performer of the era.

Bradford was also an actor, poet and journalist. He wrote for the Boston Courier as "Jay Bee".

## Works

* New German (1872)
* Law in New York (1873)
* 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1874) Libretto
* The Conditional Pardon (1875)
* Fritz's Brother (1875)
* Out of Bondage (1876)
* In and Out of Bondage (1877)
* Our Bachelors (1877) OCLC 44017470
* A.A. 1900 (1879)
* John Mishler (1882)
* One of the Finest (1883)
* A Wonderful Woman (1883)
* Cherubs (1885)
* Rose and Coe (1886)
