Ted Bruner

Ted Bruner is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Bruner began his professional music career when his band Colony was signed to MCA Records. In 2002, he relocated to Los Angeles and began writing and producing for Rondor Music/Universal. in 2012. He has written with and/or produced songs for Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, My Darkest Days, Neil Sanderson, Matt Walst, Joey Moi, Zakk Cervini, including the #1 most played rock radio songs of 2022 and 2025.

In a 2021 interview in Boulder Weekly, Matt Walst, the lead singer of Three Days Grace is quoted as saying "Ted's like. . . well, he's kind of like a therapist," Walst says over a phone interview from his home outside of Toronto. "He'll ask you personal questions because he wants to write about what's real, what's going on in your life. Whenever you can take what you've gone through and make it apply to other people's experience, that's the key to really engaging people in the music—if they can see themselves in it. I feel like Ted is super good at getting into that." "Mayday (Three Days Grace song)" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Gontier, Stock, Walst, Cervini (#1 US Rock Single, #1 Most Played Rock Radio Song of 2025) "So Called Life" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Stock, Walst (#1 US Rock Single, #1 Most Played Rock Radio Song of 2022, 2022 MTV VMA Best Rock Nomination, 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards Rock Song Of the Year Nomination) "Lifetime" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Stock, Walst (#1 US Rock Single) "Explosions" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Stock, Walst "No Tomorrow" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Stock, Walst "Souvenirs" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Stock, Walst "Fallen Angel" (Three Days Grace) — Bruner, Sanderson, Walst, Brown, Stock, Walst, Millar, Moi (#6 US Rock Single) "Thick As Thieves" (Cavo) — Bruner, Walker, Hobbs (First Single) "California" (Cavo) — Bruner, Walker, Hobbs "Ohio" (Bowling For Soup) — Bruner, Maloy, Reddick (Third Single) "Breakout" (Miley Cyrus) — Bruner, Schock, Vittetoe (Title Track) "Girlfriend" (Marie Digby) — Bruner, Digby "Spell" (Marie Digby) — Bruner, Digby "Bullet" (Jessie James) — Bruner, Perry, Vittetoe, James (Writer/Producer) "Girl Next Door" (Jessie James) — Bruner, Perry, Vittetoe (Writer/Producer) "Breaking Your Heart" (Jessie James) — Bruner, James "Thunder" (Rusko) — Bruner, Mckee