BIO

Brian Sloan is a writer/director whose work has delighted audiences and impressed critics for more than a decade. His second feature film, WTC View (2005), starring UGLY BETTY'S Michael Urie, premiered on MTV's Logo channel on September 11, 2006. It was based on his critically acclaimed play of the same name which debuted at the 2003 Fringe Festival. His first feature, the screwball wedding comedy I Think I Do (1998) stars Alexis Arquette and Lauren Velez. It was praised by the New York Times as “hysterically funny and very smart”. The film was featured in the Berlin and Toronto film festivals and eventually played in more than 50 U.S. cities via Strand Releasing and is now available on DVD.

Brian broke onto the indie scene with the short film Pool Days (1993), his NYU thesis project which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Working with Strand Releasing, Brian helped assemble a package of three short films (including Pool Days) around the theme of teenagers coming out. Boys Life (1994) screened throughout the U.S., breaking box office records in L.A., New York, and Atlanta and eventually spawned three sequels. Brian served as Executive Producer on Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003), which the NY Times called BL4 “more substantial and ambitious” than its predecessors. Brian also directed one of the shorts, Bumping Heads (2002) starring Craig Chester. BL4 played theatres in the summer of 2003 and is now available on DVD.



Brian's first novel A Really Nice Prom Mess (Simon & Schuster) was released in Summer 2005 and won The Violet Quill Award for Best LGBT Book of the Year. It was also an American Library Association Quick-Pick as well as being added to the NY Public Library's annual Books for the Teen Age list. His second novel, Tale of Two Summers (Simon and Schuster) was recently named a finalist for the 2006 Lamdba Literary Awards, in the category of Young Adult fiction. His short stories have been anthologized in the fiction series Men On Men 7 (Penguin), Man Of My Dreams (Chronicle) as well as being published in magazines such as Genre, Christopher Street and New Ink. They have also been featured online on sites like Suspect Thoughts and Lodestar Quarterly.

On television, Brian has written for Cookin' In Brooklyn, which premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2004. He also co-produced the show's pilot. Most recently he worked as as associate producer on a documentary about Cantor Fitzgerald called "A New Normal". In 2002, he also worked on the doc Easy Riders, Raging Bulls which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival, aired Trio & the BBC and is now available on DVD.