Travis Draft' began his career at Chicago's The Second City in 1992 as an observer, working behind the scenes while attending film school at Columbia College. After working his way through the ranks at the famed theater, Travis directed and acted in a gonzo television pilot in 1994 that chronicled the exploits of three young comedians (Travis, Dave Sheridan and Frank Hudetz) traveling the country in a van shooting sketches using the unknowing public as supporting cast members. This was accomplished by the use of Glasses cam, eventually leading to the creation of the MTV cult-hit Buzzkill, the year was 1995.the ground-breaking, character-driven, hidden-camera show has been recognized as having paved the way for such shows as Jackass, Tom Green, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and Spy TV—the latter of which Draft wrote, directed, co-produced and acted in for NBC. In 2002 He directed Oblivious, a hidden camera game show starring Reagan Burns. When Animal Planet wanted in on the then hot genre he was hired to write, and produce a special titled Animal Pranksters.It was only natural that Travis was called in for The Sci-Fi Channel's first hidden-camera show—the now infamous Scare Tactics. Travis ended up staying with Scare Tactics for three seasons, splitting his time between acting and directing. During that time he was also cast as a regular on the Comedy Central hit Trigger Happy TV, and spent his time flying all over the country, pranking people for two different shows.Travis Draft has now played over 500 characters on TV.In the summer of 2003 Travis Co-founded Van Stone, a Shock Rock band that had great success having placed his songs in numerous films, tv shows and Tony Hawk's video game.In 2005 he was cast as homeless rocker "Dirty Don" for a VH1 international show called "Home James". The script-prov show was aired in Brazil, The UK, Japan, Australia and Israel.In 2006 Travis was hired to write, produce, act and direct Two projects for Playboy TV. The adult hidden camera show "Totally Busted" and "Canoga Park" (BBC's "The Office meets Boogie Nights".)In 2008 Travis returned to work on Scare Tactics for the Sci-Fi channel, and started a new musical endeavor entitled "Knights of Monte Carlo", a tribute to the genre of Yacht Rock. After a three year hiatus touring with the Knights, Travis returned to TV as a producer of A&E's reality show, "The Hasselhoff's". He shortly exited the show soon after citing "No reality there".In 2011 Travis wrote and directed a Trigger Happy TV style hidden camera show for NBC "Off Their Rockers " featuring Betty White .2012 Year of freelance DP work2013 Travis has begun a new endeavor flying camera equipped Drones , meanwhile producing and directing two shows for the fledgling network Esquire Channel for witch he also supplied Aerial Cinematography. Also appearing on "Deal With It " a hidden camera game show executive produced by Howie Mandel.
TV Series documentary camera operator - 2 episodes
Snack Off
2014
TV Series camera operator - 7 episodes
Deal with It
2014
TV Series camera operator - 10 episodes
Teen Mom 3
2013
TV Series camera operator - 1 episode
LA Sugar
2013
TV Movie camera operator
Teen Mom
2011-2012
TV Series camera operator - 14 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Ghoul Squad
2015
TV Short writer completed
Freak Out
2014-2015
TV Series 14 episodes
Canoga Park
2007-2008
TV Series creator - 9 episodes
Totally Busted
2005-2006
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Animal Pranksters
2002
TV Movie
Spy TV
2001
TV Series
Trigger Happy TV
2000
TV Series
Buzzkill
1996
TV Series
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Luther's Magic Weed
2011
writer: "Wake-n-Bake"
Little *ucker
2010
writer: "Palmdale USA", "$25 Dollar Blowjob", "2 in the Pink 1 in the Stink"
Hella Crazy
2008
Video writer: "We're Van Stone", "Skatetown 4 Wheels to Freedom"
Dirty Jokes the Movie
2008
Video writer: "Wake-n-Bake", "Partay Harday", "Rock-n-Roll In Our Bones", "Our Testicles Aren't Symmetrical", "Rock-n-Roll Apocalypse", "Don't Ever Leave Me", "$25 Dollar Blowjob", "Show Us Your Tits For Freedom!", "Hot Chix"
Extreme Gone Wild
2007
Video writer: "Spring Break Forever!"
Tony Hawk's Project 8
2006
Video Game writer: "Skatetown 4 Wheels to Freedom"
Evil Bong
2006
writer: "Partay Harday", "We're Van Stone"
Totally Busted
2005-2006
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Punk'd
2006
TV Series writer - 4 episodes
Van Stone: Tour of Duty
2006
TV Movie writer: "We're Van Stone", "Palmdale, U.S.A."