Brian Ash

Brian Ash (born September 291974 in Bronx, New York) is an American producer and screenwriter.

Brian Ash is a writer and producer on Aaron McGruder's "The Boondocks." Previously, he produced segments for the second season of "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" and was a writer, producer and director on "The Super Rumble Mix Show" a comedy variety series starring John Witherspoon and Gary Anthony Williams.

In features, Ash served as a writer and co-producer on Universal Pictures's and Roc-A-Fella Films's "Paper Soldiers" and has written screenplays for Lion's Gate Films and Urban Entertainment, including "Hittin' It!" with co-writer Myles Reiff. In 2005, he wrote, produced and directed "See Paris Die!", an animated campaign for the Warner Bros. film "House of Wax," and "From Hair to Eternity", a comedy short for Jewish Impact Films, starring Sean Gullette.

With a background in music videos and New York independent film, Ash landed his first production deal with the late George Jackson's UBO Network. There, he created "IndiePlanet", an animated series later syndicated by Sci-Fi Network. He left animation for a brief time and served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Nabisco from November of 1992 to July of 1993. In 2001, Ash received World Animation Celebration's Best Animated Drama award for "The Road to Graceland", a trilogy of animated prequels to the Warner Bros. release, "3000 Miles to Graceland". Starring Kevin Costner and Christian Slater, the project marked the first time a major film's cast created original content for the internet.

A Bronx-raised and yeshiva-educated alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts film program, Brian Ash lives in Los Angeles.

External links

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* [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071219005681&newsLang=en The Super Rumble Mix Show press release]
* [http://www.myspace.com/the_play_pen The Playpen on myspace.com]
* [http://3kmtg.warnerbros.com The Road to Graceland: Animated Prequels to 3KMTG]
* [http://www.animationmagazine.net/wac/see_paris_die.html See Paris Die! Animation]