Dan Mazer
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Dan Mazer (born 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, TV/Film producer, and comedian. He is best known as the long-time writing and production partner of Sacha Baron Cohen and has worked with him on such characters as Ali G and Borat. Along with the TV personalities he produced, Dan also helped produce 2 feature films: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Ali G Indahouse, and he will direct Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.
Mazer read law at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, and graduated in 1994. He was an active member of Cambridge Footlights while at university and was vice president from 1993 to 1994.
His early work includes production roles on The Word, The Big Breakfast and The Eleven O'Clock Show.
In 2007, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. He shared his nomination with Sacha Baron Cohen, Ant Hines, Peter Baynham, and Todd Phillips. They ended up losing to The Departed.
He is married to Daisy Donovan.
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