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.

He has written with and/or produced songs for Katy Perry,[1] Miley Cyrus,[4][1] Kesha,[5] Selena Gomez,[1] Plain White T's,[1] Three Days Grace,[1][6] My Darkest Days,[1] Cavo,[7] Neil Sanderson,[8] Matt Walst,[1] Barry Stock,[8] Brad Walst,[8] Adam Gontier,[9] Joey Moi,[10] Zakk Cervini,[9] Gavin Brown,[10] Marie Digby,[11] Natalie Walker,[12] Rusko,[6] Bonnie Mckee[6] among others, as well as songs in film and television, and has co-written four #1 US rock singles,[13][14][6][15] including the #1 most played rock radio song of 2022.

[16] In a 2021 interview in Boulder Weekly, Matt Walst, the lead singer of Three Days Grace is quoted as saying "Ted's like.

"[1] When Bruner got paired with Katy Perry, a wide-eyed pop songwriter who had recently been dropped from a label, he said "She was just so, so sad.