Erik Weiner is an American actor, writer, comedian, and producer best known for co-creating the play The Bomb-itty of Errors and his role as Agent Sebso on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Career In 1999, he co-created and starred in The Bomb-itty of Errors, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, blending hip-hop and Shakespeare. The show has been performed in New York City (Off-Broadway), London (West End), Chicago, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Dublin, Florida, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and continues to play around the world.
Weiner was invited to be a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting Lab in 2002.
In 2002 Weiner co-created and starred in the MTV sketch comedy series Scratch & Burn. He made his feature film debut in the 20th Century Fox romantic comedy Brown Sugar, starring Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Mos Def and Queen Latifah.
In 2005, Weiner played Dragon on HBO's Unscripted, directed and executive produced by George Clooney.
Weiner's music video "Shawshank In A Minute", directed by John Landis, won JibJab's Great Sketch Experiment in 2006.
His musical comedy NERDS, written with collaborator Jordan Allen-Dutton and music composed by Hal Goldberg, won Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Original Music in 2007.
Weiner received three Emmy Award nominations in 2007, 2008, and 2012 for writing on Robot Chicken.
Weiner has produced such shows as America's Best Dance Crew, Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood, The Sing-Off, and served as the Head Writer on the MTV Movie Awards in 2010, 2011, and 2013. He was Creative Producer of the 2011 Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Peabody Award for his writing on CNN Heroes.
Weiner, along with his brother, Mark Weiner, has written episodes and songs for Netflix's Emmy Award winning animated kid series Ask the StoryBots, with their popular Dinosaur, Space, and Animal songs receiving over a billion streams.
In 2010, Weiner played Agent Sebso on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, executive produced by Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese. Winter saw his 2008 YouTube video, "One Line on the Sopranos" (a tribute to the actual one line he had on The Sopranos, playing a store manager who said, "Leon, take your break at two" in the 2001 season 3 episode "Another Toothpick") Winter had written that Sopranos episode, and, thus, that one line, and this led to Mr. Weiner being cast on the series. In 2011, Mr. Weiner won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Drama Series for Boardwalk Empire.
In 2012 and 2013, Weiner played Ian on NBC's The New Normal. In 2016, Weiner began writing and producing on The Goldbergs on ABC.
Personal life Weiner lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.
Filmography
Acting
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes2002Brown SugarRen2005SerenityHelmsman
Television YearTitleRoleNotes2000The StreetD.J.Episode: "Miracle on Wall Street"2001The SopranosManagerEpisode: "Another Toothpick"2002Third WatchCharlie B.Episode: "Old Dogs, New Tricks"2005UnscriptedDragon10 episodes2008–2018Robot ChickenVarious voices6 episodes2010Boardwalk EmpireAgent Sebso9 episodes2012–2013The New NormalIan3 episodes2018, 2019The GoldbergsSheriff / Marc Birek2 episodes
Video games YearTitleRoleNotes2004Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasPedestrianUncredited
Writing YearTitleNotes2004Scratch and BurnAlso co-creator2006–2018Robot Chicken31 episodes2007Robot Chicken: Star WarsTelevision film2007–2008Snoop Dogg's Father Hood4 episodes; also producer20082008 MTV Movie AwardsTelevision special2008The 2nd Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute20092009 MTV Movie Awards20102010 MTV Movie Awards2010Spike TV VGA Video Game Awards201328th Independent Spirit Awards201429th Independent Spirit Awards20142014 Kids' Choice Sports201541st People's Choice Awards201530th Independent Spirit Awards2015SuperMansion12 episodes201642nd People's Choice AwardsTelevision special2016–presentThe Goldbergs47 episodes; also producer2016–2018Ask the StoryBots5 episodes20182018 MTV Movie & TV AwardsTelevision special20192019 MTV Movie & TV Awards
References
External links Official website