Brandeis Productions

Liza LifeCoach
AMC - 26 episodes
Exec Producer - Director

Cheri Oteri, formerly from Saturday Night Live, portrays a Life Coach committed to making the world a better place one anxious person at a time. The series was a webisode experiment that aired at 8pm on the network as well as on the web.

Movies at Our House
AMC - 52 Episodes
Creator - Exec Producer
Director

A sit-com that plays before and after the breaks of a movie playing on AMC. The premise is that Jimmy and Rachel (Jimmy Pardo and Rachel Quaintance) have a show on AMC that appears before and after the breaks, where their special guests discuss the movie they’re watching on AMC along with us at home. But behind the scenes of the show there is intrigue, romance and chaos, which makes things all the more interesting when the show goes “live”.

Fools for Love
VH-1 - 13 Episodes
Producer - Director
Co-Host

Co-hosts Caroline Rhea and myself wandered the streets of Manhattan discussing the infinite variations of experience surrounding life’s most mysterious emotion, love. Our short dialogues set up a series of stand-up comics expanding on the particular topic. From there, comics demonstrate the best and worst love has to offer in short narrative scenes shot at a variety of New York City locations.

Guests included Kevin James, Dave Attell and Adam Ferrara.

Life: Part 2
PBS - Pilot Episode
Field Pieces
Producer - Director - Editor

In a show about how not to hate growing old, Lewis Black expounds on the joys and sorrows of aging over a hot plate of fried food.

Authors Dave Barry and Mitch Albom, members of The Rock Bottom Remainders, play a concert at UCLA. The band is exclusively writers of a certain age committed to rocking on, no matter how good they never quite get. Other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Scott Turow and many others.

7 Short Films
Comedy Central Writer - Director

The assignment was to come up with seven 16 mm films about romance as it relates to food. This one examines the inner life of a broken man who is obsessed with chicken.