Biographie
David Diamond and David Weissman's partnership stems from a 30-year friendship that began during their high school years at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia. They went separate ways for college, with Diamond studying Cinema Studies at NYU and Weissman focusing on Chinese history, first at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then at the University of Michigan. Weissman earned two Masters Degrees in Chinese history—one from the University of Wisconsin and another from Brown University—before leaving academia to join Diamond in Los Angeles, where Diamond was pursuing a writing career.
Their first spec script, "The Whiz Kid," was sold to 20th Century Fox in 1994. They continued developing original comedy ideas, starting with "Guam Goes to the Moon," and earned their first produced credit in 2000 with Universal Pictures' "The Family Man," starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. They then collaborated with Ivan Reitman on the DreamWorks Pictures sci-fi comedy "Evolution."
In 2005, Diamond and Weissman teamed up with "Wedding Crashers" producer Andrew Panay on a series of feature comedies, resulting in five consecutive pitch sales and two additional produced films: "Old Dogs" (2009), featuring John Travolta and Robin Williams, and the romantic comedy "When In Rome" (2010), starring Kristin Bell and Josh Duhamel.
That same year, they wrote their first television pilot for 20th Television and CBS, an untitled project starring John Leguizamo. This led to further pilot sales for both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas at NBC, ABC, FOX, and TBS.
Now entering the fourth decade of their friendship and the third decade of their writing collaboration, Diamond and Weissman remain dedicated to creating concept- and character-driven stories that offer more than the sum of their parts. Over more than twenty years working with producers, directors, actors, and studio executives, they've witnessed dramatic shifts in the industry and changing trends, yet stories that feel genuine, true, and ultimately uplifting continue to connect with audiences. It is this audience that Diamond and Weissman write for every day.
Both are married and share five children between them, ranging from middle school to college age.
