Biography
In 2008, I pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal drug conspiracy and spent one year at the world-famous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. I wrote about jail in Hit the Body Alarm, which starred my Harvard classmate, Winsome Brown, at The Performing Garage in SoHo.
Today, I assist defendants and their families through WhiteCollarAdvice.com. My colleagues and I help clients tell their stories as they prepare for sentencing. I’ve worked on cases from Alaska to Florida to Hawaii to Maine. I’ve worked with clients from Uganda, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, West Bank, Jordan, Tunisia, India, South Korea, China, Thailand, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Venezuela—plus survivors of wars and revolutions in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, and South Sudan.
I love my colleagues, our clients, and this opportunity to help people navigate their justice journeys.
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For over twenty years, I worked with theater legends like Billy Porter, Carol Burnett, Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Anthony Rapp, Anthony Hopkins, Cy Coleman, Linda Lavin, Jane Powell, and Jason Robert Brown. I directed the world premiere of Billy Porter’s Ghetto Superstar at the Public Theater (produced by George C. Wolfe and honored by GLAAD). My directing work appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes II and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” In 2018, the Off-Broadway Alliance nominated my production of Goldstein for Best New Musical.
“. . .a client will often spend time with Brad Rouse, who is the firm’s expert in written narrative. . .One unexpected feature of these narratives is how much of the story hints at a rehabilitation that...calls back to a time when confinement about reform and salvation . . . put all the parts together, and the buoyant takeaway for any judge reading it is that maybe his job is already done. Nothing isolates one’s crime, and all the moral dereliction that comes with it, quite like a story in which the jail time, which hasn’t even started, already seems to be receding into the past.”
The New York Times Magazine
June 12, 2022