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Brian Volk-Weiss is an American film and television producer and director. He is the founder and current chief executive officer (CEO) of The Nacelle Company and its subsidiary company, Comedy Dynamics. Volk-Weiss is the creator, producer, and occasional director of the Netflix series The Toys That Made Us and The Movies That Made Us, along with television specials like Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History and Discontinued. Through Comedy Dynamics, he has produced and directed numerous stand-up specials and comedy albums for comedians such as Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Ali Wong, Tiffany Haddish, and Ilana Glazer. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Volk-Weiss moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduating from the University of Iowa in 1998. He began his career as a production assistant on the film Cast Away and later worked as an assistant at Barry Katz Entertainment Group, where he managed comedians like Whitney Cummings, Jeff Ross, and Dane Cook. In 2008, he founded New Wave Dynamics, which later became Comedy Dynamics. By 2014, the company had produced over 100 stand-up specials and 125 comedy albums, launching its own comedy channel on platforms like Hulu, Roku, and Amazon. In 2017, Volk-Weiss spun Comedy Dynamics off into a stand-alone company under The Nacelle Company. He has since produced several television series, 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. He also served as executive producer on the revival of the 1992 TV series Mad About You.