Brian Savelson

Brian Savelson is an American writer, director, and producer who works in film, theater, and television.[1][2][3]

Savelson has written for numerous TV series including Amazon's The New Yorker Presents,[4] Fox's Next, and Apple's Little America for which he was nominated for The Humanitas Prize.[5][6][7]

Savelson wrote and directed the feature film In Our Nature[8][9][10] starring John Slattery,[11][12] Jena Malone,[13] Zach Gilford,[14] and Gabrielle Union.[15][16]

Savelson was an associate producer of the Tony Award-winning revival of A Raisin in the Sun[17][18] starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan.[19] The production was noted for the especially diverse audience it brought to Broadway.[20]

Savelson's short film "Counting Water" screened at over 20 film festivals, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival,[21] was aired on PBS, and exhibited at LACMA.[22]

Savelson won an MVPA Award for his direction of the Band Of Horses music video "Is There A Ghost."[23] Savelson directed the music video for Joss Stone's cover of The High Road which featured the singer riding an elephant through a world of melting clocks.[24] Savelson has also directed music videos for Ra Ra Riot[25] and The Republic Tigers.[26]

In August 2020, it was announced Savelson would be collaborating on a new TV series with Janicza Bravo and Jake Gyllenhaal based on Ian Parker's New Yorker article, "A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions."[27][28]