title: Joseph Bradford (playwright)
text: # 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)
  