Claim: Screenwriting is one of D. B. Weiss's professions.

Daniel Brett Weiss -LRB- born April 23 , 1971 -RRB- is an American author , screenwriter , producer , and director . Along with his collaborator David Benioff , he is best known as screenwriter , executive producer , and sometimes director of Game of Thrones , the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin 's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire .   His 2003 debut novel , Lucky Wander Boy , is themed around video games .