About Us
Brass Lion Entertainment is creating authentic, impactful experiences that reflect our reality and our aspirations. We break barriers, elevate voices, and craft stories to build a legacy of quality that empowers our community. With passion and purpose, our multi-discipline, multi-creative work ensures everyone feels seen, heard, and inspired. We make dope entertainment. All culture. No vulture.
Our vision is to lead the future of entertainment by creating a legacy rooted in authenticity, creativity, and community. We are building a world where diversity is celebrated, culture always sets the tone, and our work inspires positive, lasting change in the industries we inhabit.
Brass Lion Entertainment is currently working on an unannounced action-RPG video game title for consoles and PC.
FOUNDERS
Bryna Dabby Smith – Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder Bryna Dabby Smith brings a deep production and
executive background, both in the interactive space and beyond.
Bryna has worked on major titles over the past 20 years,
including The Bourne Conspiracy, Def Jam
Vendetta, and Sleeping Dogs. In recent years,
she expanded her reach beyond games and left the west coast to
head up production at a NY-based agency, leading large teams and
creating interactive applications and content for major brands,
such as Samsung, Credit Suisse and MetLife. She has a passion
for building teams and companies, and creating compelling
content across mediums.
Rashad Redic – Chief Creative
Officer
Co-founder Rashad Redic joined
Brass Lion as a founder and member of the executive team. An
expert artist, Rashad has experience working on art for some of
the most prestigious titles in history, including Game of the
Year winning titles The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and
Fallout 3 at Bethesda Game Studios. Most recently he
was the creative director of the indie title Living
Dark. A native of Oakland, CA, Rashad brings a west
coast attitude and soundtrack to his work.
MUSIC SUPERVISION / SOUND DESIGN
Just Blaze – Director of Music and
Culture
Just Blaze is a legendary hip hop producer who has been a household
name in the music industry for the past 20 years. He’s worked on
classic albums such as The Blueprint and The Black
Album (Jay-Z), Take Care (Drake), Good
Kid, m.A.A.d City (Kendrick Lamar) andLemonade (Beyoncé).
He’s won multiple Grammy awards and has worked with artists such
as Snoop Dogg, Usher, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Rick Ross,
Diddy & Christina Aguilera, Eminem, TI & Rihanna,
and many more. In addition to his record production credits,
he’s scored various video game projects for EA Sports,
Capcom, and Midway, and created soundscapes for Hollywood
blockbusters such asIce Age 4 andThe A-Team.
Just brings his vast understanding of era-appropriate soundtracks
and his finely tuned ear for sound design to all Brass Lion
projects.
COLLABORATORS
Evan Narcisse – Writer
Evan Narcisse is a writer, journalist, and critic
who writes about video games, comic books, movies and TV, often
focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. A
native New Yorker, he’s most recently been the author of
Marvel’s Rise of the Black Panther graphic novel. Evan
has written at io9, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, and Kotaku.
He’s taught a course on video game journalism at New York
University. Evan is co-writing Corner Wolves as well
as the ARPG project at Brass Lion.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- GamesIndustry.biz – 2022 Best Places to Work Award (US)
- GamesIndustry.biz – 2023 Best Place to Work Award (US)
- GamesIndustry.biz – 2023 Best Place to Work Award (CANADA)
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
- Game Informer – Standing Up (December 2019 – The Blizzard Issue)
- GamesIndustry.biz – Brass Lion Entertainment and the Critical Business of Diversity
- FinTechTV – Brass Lion aims to change the video game industry through stories from underrepresented groups