Erik Weiner

Erik Weiner has spent most of his career where comedy meets music and the written page. In 1999 he co-created and starred in The Bomb-itty of Errors, which turns Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors into a hip-hop show, and in 2007 his musical comedy NERDS, written with Jordan Allen-Dutton and scored by Hal Goldberg, won Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Original Music.

On screen he made his feature debut in Brown Sugar in 2002 and played Dragon in the HBO series Unscripted in 2005. A single line as a store manager in The Sopranos became the joke of his 2008 YouTube video One Line on the Sopranos. Later he played Agent Sebso in Boardwalk Empire, and with that cast he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011.

A large share of his work happens behind the camera. Writing for Robot Chicken brought him Emmy Award nominations in 2007, 2008 and 2012, his writing on CNN Heroes was honoured with a Peabody Award, and in 2016 he began writing and producing The Goldbergs on ABC.