Education
Amherst College.
director novelist screenwriter
Amherst College.
Bromell joined the crew of National Broadcasting Company police drama Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994. He served as a writer and co-executive producer for the show"s third season. He contributed to writing seven episodes for the season.
He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season and wrote a further 17 episodes.
He scaled back his involvement with the fifth season and became a consulting producer. He wrote a further two episodes before leaving the crew at the end of the season in 1997.
He contributed to a total of 26 episodes as a writer over three seasons with the series. He returned as a co-writer and co-executive producer for the feature-length follow-up Homicide: The Movie in 2000.
He wrote and produced for many television series, including Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, Homicide: Life on the Street, Brotherhood, Carnivàle, and Rubicon.
He was a consulting producer, and later Executive Producer on the Showtime series Homeland at the time of his death and wrote four episodes: "The Good Soldier", "Representative Brody", "Q&A", and "Broken Hearts". Bromell wrote and directed the feature film Panic (2000), which was nominated for the top prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and tele-movie Last Call (aka Fitzgerald), with Jeremy Irons playing writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bromell co-wrote the pilot of the United States of America Network television series Falling Water, which he co-created with Blake Masters.