1. Brian Volk-Weiss was born on May 28,1976 and is an American film and television producer and director.
24 Facts About Brian Volk-Weiss
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Brian Volk-Weiss is the founder and current chief executive officer of The Nacelle Company and its subsidiary company, Comedy Dynamics.
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Brian Volk-Weiss has produced several television shows including Join or Die with Craig Ferguson, Behind the Attraction on Disney+, A Toy Store Near You, The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, and Down to Earth with Zac Efron.
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Brian Volk-Weiss serves as executive producer on the revival of the 1992 TV series, Mad About You.
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Brian Volk-Weiss was born and grew up in Queens, New York.
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Brian Volk-Weiss has described himself as coming from "a family of dentists and lawyers".
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Brian Volk-Weiss attended the University of Iowa and graduated in 1998.
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Brian Volk-Weiss began his career as a production assistant and worked in the wardrobe department for the 2000 film, Cast Away.
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Brian Volk-Weiss later took a job as an assistant at the Barry Katz Entertainment Group, a talent management company.
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Brian Volk-Weiss continued to manage comedians and produce films and television shows with Barry Katz as part of New Wave.
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Brian Volk-Weiss was a producer on the Dane Cook films, Employee of the Month, Good Luck Chuck, and My Best Friend's Girl.
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Brian Volk-Weiss produced the Dane Cook-led HBO documentary series, Tourgasm.
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Brian Volk-Weiss had served as a producer on shows like VH1's Stevie TV and Investigation Discovery's True Grime: Crime Scene Clean Up.
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At that time, New Wave Dynamics was renamed "Comedy Dynamics" and Brian Volk-Weiss became a partner in the company.
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In 2014, two Brian Volk-Weiss-produced comedy albums were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
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Brian Volk-Weiss had produced a range of other new stand-up specials that year for comedians like Kathleen Madigan, Marc Maron, Mike Birbiglia, Doug Stanhope, and Brian Posehn.
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Brian Volk-Weiss produced stand-up specials for Tom Segura and Ali Wong, among others.
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In January 2017, Brian Volk-Weiss spun Comedy Dynamics off into a stand-alone company owned by the newly created Nacelle Company.
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In December 2018, Discontinued, a television special about discontinued products created by Brian Volk-Weiss, premiered on The CW.
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Brian Volk-Weiss created and produced another Kevin Hart television special entitled Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History which began streaming on Netflix in February 2019.
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In March 2019, it was announced that Brian Volk-Weiss would serve as an executive producer with Sony Pictures Television on the revival of Mad About You, the NBC series that aired from 1992 to 1999.
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In May 2020, a new Brian Volk-Weiss-created series entitled A Toy Store Near You debuted as a production of The Nacelle Company on various platforms.
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In January 2024, Brian Volk-Weiss was announced to be co-writing the Marvel Comics series Aliens: What If.
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The NacelleVerse is an ongoing American transmedia franchise and shared fictional universe created by Brian Volk-Weiss and presented by The Nacelle Company.