Lance Khazei is a multi-talented individual with a distinguished career in the entertainment industry. As an Emmy-nominated writer, award-winning producer, and festival-acclaimed director, he has made a significant impact in the world of television comedy, feature films, and new media.
With a diverse range of clients including Fox, Comedy Central, Disney, Dreamworks, MTV, Cartoon Network, and NBC Studios, Khazei has developed and written numerous television comedies. His original screenplays, ROMANTIC COMEDY and BABY FORMULA, were sold to MGM and New Line, respectively. Although he did not participate in the production rewrites, BABY FORMULA was re-developed as the theatrical release Son of the Mask.
Khazei has written additional feature films for New Line, Columbia, and Warner Brothers, working across both comedy and action genres. His independent comedy, NAMCAR NIGHT RACE, has screened to forty-five festival wins and honors worldwide, including multiple Audience Awards, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Comedy, and Best Television Pilot awards.
NAMCAR stars Theo Von, Whitney Rice, and James Morosini, and has received praise from MovieMaker Magazine, which calls it "brilliant," and the Mindfield Film Festival, which describes it as "deliriously funny." New Filmmakers LA has hailed Khazei as a "passionate and ultra-talented writer-director."
In addition to his work in feature films, Khazei has also created new media projects for Fox, GQ, and Conde Nast. He was hired by Fox Digital to write and direct a 1970s period piece, sports competition comedy starring Rob Delaney.
Before his career in the entertainment industry, Khazei was a founding producer of HuffPost Live, a pioneering video streaming news service. There, he created the weekly series, "The Writers' Room," featuring interviews with entertainment industry insiders. HuffPost Live was named Mashable's Best Media Innovation of 2012, earned a Webby Award in 2013, and Khazei was named a producer to watch in 2015 by Indie's UNITE.
Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire, Lance Khazei graduated from Harvard with honors, where he studied government. Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, he worked for City Year, a domestic Peace Corps.
