Brent V. Friedman

Brent V. Friedman is a writer, producer, and video game developer who worked on the third season of in . He was Consulting Producer on the first half of the season and co-wrote with Chris Black the teleplay and with Paul Brown the story for the episode . He also teamed with Black to pen the episode .
Among Friedman's early writing credits in the film industry are the horror film Evil Altar (1988, with David Winburn), the comedy Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal (1990, with Michael Pataki, Spice Williams, and Shawn Crowder), (1990, with Charles Lucia, Melanie Shatner, Tim Trella, and Merritt Yohnka), (1991, with Chris Sarandon and Deep Roy), (1993), (1993, with Rosalind Ingledew, Barry Lynch, and Clint Howard), and (1993, with Jeffrey Combs, Richard Lynch, David Warner, Dennis Christopher, and Gary Graham).
Further writing credits include (1994, with Christopher Neame), (1994), Prehysteria! 2 (1994, with Larry A. Hankin), Prehysteria! 3 (1995, with Peter Dennis), (1995, with Schae Harrison), the crime drama Exit (1996), and (1997, with Brian Thompson, Reiner Schöne, Musetta Vander, J.J. Perry, Dennis Keiffer, Lance LeGault, Carolyn Seymour, and Dana Hee).
Together with previous writing partner Bryce Zabel, Friedman created which was canceled after the first season and ran between 1996 and 1997. The series starred starring Eric Close, with Conor O'Farrell, Jeri Ryan, and Tim Kelleher. Friedman also worked as supervising and later co-executive producer on the series and also co-wrote half of the episodes. For the pilot episode, "The Awakening", he shared a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in the category Original Long Form in 1998 with Zabel. Dark Skies also received a Saturn Award nomination as Best Genre Network TV Series in 1997. Friedman was later interviewed for the 2010 DVD special feature Signal-To-Noise: Uncovering Dark Skies.
Friedman wrote an episode for in 1999 before he worked as supervising and later co-executive producer on in 2000. The series starred Dina Meyer and Paul Guilfoyle; Friedman wrote the series finale, "The Breach" in 2000. Between 2002 and 2003, Friedman worked on the one season remake of The Twilight Zone for CBS. He wrote a number of episodes for the series and contributed as consulting producer.
Friedman worked in the video game industry for companies such as Electronic Arts, Zynga, and 343 Industries. Further projects as writer are (2003, with Nikita Ager), the video games (2007) and (2012), (2012), and (2007) and Gemini Division (2008) on which he also worked as executive producer. For Gemini Division, Friedman received a Streamy Award nomination in 2009 in the category Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series which he shared with Jacqueline Zambrano.
In 2008, Friedman worked as consulting producer on , which featured Ben Cross. He was also executive producer on the web series Woke Up Dead (2009, with Daniel Roebuck) and Valemont (2009) as part of his company Electric Farm Entertainment in which he was a founding partner between 2006 and 2011. 
He later wrote several episodes of (2012-13) and Star Wars: Rebels (2016-17) and (2014). In 2015, he co-created and directed the video game BattleKasters for the production company Mass Hysteria Entertainment Company, Inc., in which he worked as Senior Vice President of Product Development & Marketing beginning in 2009. 
Since 2011, Friedman has been co-founder and chief creative officer of his production company Artifact Technologies. 
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