Biography
Dylan Brody is an award winning playwright, humorist and thrice published author. In recent years, he has emerged as a radio raconteur, whose witty and profound tales of his journey through life are unique, yet utterly recognizable to everyone, earning him a reputation as one of America's fastest rising storytellers.
Brody produced two full-length CDs that were released by StandUp! Records in 2009, following a sold-out launch event at the Comedy Central Stage: Brevity, a compilation of pieces originally produced for radio, and True Enough: Dylan Brody - Live. His stories are heard daily on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio's LaughUSA Channel, and have appeared on KYCY Radio in San Francisco, WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York and KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles.
His one-person show More Arts / Less Martial premiered in January 2009 to a standing ovation. The piece takes Brody and his audience on a poignant and often hilarious journey from a childhood of bullied insecurity to an adulthood of martial arts study, personal growth and ultimately true Mastery of storytelling and Taekwondo.
In early 2007, Dylan Brody's Thinking Allowed, brought long form humor and insight, literate and literary, to a broad based audience. The show, the first of its kind ever in the venue, enjoyed a successful six month run on the main stage at the Hollywood Improv.
Mr. Brody began performing stand-up in New York the summer after he finished high school. During his sophomore year at Sarah Lawrence College, the world famous Improvisation in Hell's Kitchen accepted him as a Regular performer. The great George Carlin, whom Dylan admired as a child, once called to encourage him, referring to Brody as a "very funny young political comic." Back when he was young . . . and a political comic.
Dylan studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England while he worked London's comedy clubs and developed a loyal following at the Canal Café Theater where he performed weekly. Returning to America, Dylan worked venues from New York to Los Angeles, sharing the stage with some of the comedy world's biggest stars including: Adam Sandler, Jeff Foxworthy, Dennis Miller, Jon Lovitz, Larry Miller, Norm McDonald, Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, Larry David, and Jerry Seinfeld. He has appeared at M.I.T., at Sarah Lawrence College's vast Reisinger Concert Hall and served as Northfield Mount Hermon School's first ever Artist in Residence. He has written for dozens of comedians, including Jay Leno, who has used Brody's work in his monologues on NBC's The Tonight Show.
Mr. Brody wrote his first play while still in grade school, and went on to become a prolific writer and novelist. One of his latest plays, Mother May I, won the prestigious Stanley Drama Award for playwriting. His novels, A Tale of a Hero and The Song of Her Sword and The Warm Hello, were published in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and his novella, Heroes Fall, was published in 2009. Brody has also written television ads and in theater movie trailers, including the Super Bowl ad for Austin Powers in Goldmember and an hysterical Bad Santa teaser campaign, which people continue to discuss to this day. In 2000, he was nominated for a Golden Trailer Award for his work on Big Momma's House. Brody's work has been published in periodicals ranging from TSR's Adventure Fantasy magazine, Dragon, to Harvard Press' scientific humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research.
For more than two decades, Dylan Brody has been making people laugh around the world. He has evolved into an artful anecdotalist with an engaging style all his own.
