Ben Fast(I)
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Ben Fast runs production for Kevin Williamson's Outerbanks Entertainment. He is also an adjunct professor at USC's School of Cinema Arts. He was previously EVP of Development at Indigenous Media, working for principals Jon Avnet and Rodrigo García, where he packaged and produced Facebook Watch's Five Points. Formerly he was the Director of Scripted TV at The Weinstein Company (2015), based out of LA. A graduate of Princeton University and USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Fast has worked as a screenwriter for WME and TNT's Leverage. He directed and co-created the show Date Of The Month Club, a NYTVF 2014 Official Selection. His half sister Molly Jong-Fast is an accomplished novelist, his father Jonathan published 10 novels, and his grandfather Howard Fast wrote Spartacus, Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, and many other novels.