CREATOR BIOS

RYAN MAUSKOPF
Creator/Writer

Ryan Mauskopf is a New York guy who loves to animate, illustrate and make music. His last name means “Mouse Head” in German. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts for illustration, he’s worked in the NYC comedy television scene for nearly a decade, bringing jokes from script to screen at The Onion, BET, and Netflix while winning a Peabody Award and a Creative Arts Emmy along the way. As a kid, Ryan would draw his own animation cels on overhead transparency sheets with paint markers and sharpies.

www.ryanmauskopf.com

AARON AUGENBLICK
Executive Producer [Executive Producer, Future Brain]

Aaron Augenblick is the founder and creative director of Augenblick Studios, an independent animation studio in Brooklyn, NY. Notable productions include The Jellies! (Adult Swim), Losers (Netflix), Ugly Americans (Comedy Central), Superjail! (Adult Swim), and Wonder Showzen (MTV). In addition to commercial work, Aaron’s independent films have been screened in festivals internationally. He wrote and directed the short film Golden Age, which was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the Ottawa Film Festival. This year, Augenblick Studios is proudly celebrating its 20th anniversary.

DANIEL POWELL
Executive Producer [Executive Producer, Future Brain]

Daniel Powell is the Emmy and Peabody winning co-creator and Executive Producer of Inside Amy Schumer. He was a writer and Executive Producer on the cult animated series Ugly Americans, which ran on Comedy Central from 2010-2012. Other EP credits include Netflix’s Astronomy Club, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, and The Break with Michelle Wolf. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate Producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a contributing writer to Robert Smigel’s “TV Funhouse” segments on Saturday Night Live, a writer for the Nicktoons series Voltron Force, and a house performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

KEVIN MAHER
Producer

Kevin’s credits include Emmy-nominated comedy writer, award-winning filmmaker and masked wrestler. He’s created stories for Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, HBO, AMC, CNN, and Kanbar Entertainment. SyFy.com called him an “insane genius.” Once, on a dare, he wrote 100 haiku about Batman.

www.lovekevin.com