David Diamond and David Weissman's remarkable partnership is rooted in a 30-year friendship that dates back to their high school days at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia. Although they went their separate ways for college, Diamond majored in Cinema Studies at NYU, while Weissman studied Chinese history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Michigan, earning two Masters Degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Brown University.
Weissman eventually set aside his academic aspirations to join Diamond in Los Angeles, where Diamond had settled to pursue a writing career. The partners' first spec script, "The Whiz Kid," was sold to 20th Century Fox in 1994, marking the beginning of their successful collaboration.
Their subsequent original ideas for comedies included "Guam Goes to the Moon" and their first produced credit in 2000, Universal Pictures' "The Family Man," starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. They also collaborated with Ivan Reitman on the Dreamworks Pictures sci-fi comedy "Evolution."
In 2005, Diamond and Weissman partnered with producer Andrew Panay on a series of feature comedies, resulting in five consecutive pitch sales and two additional produced credits, "Old Dogs," starring John Travolta and Robin Williams, and the romantic comedy "When In Rome," starring Kristin Bell and Josh Duhamel.
That same year, the team wrote their first television pilot script for 20th Television and CBS, which starred John Leguizamo. They went on to sell pilot scripts for both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas at NBC, ABC, FOX, and TBS.
Now, in their fourth decade of friendship and third decade of writing partnership, Diamond and Weissman continue to explore concept and character-driven stories that add up to more than the sum of their parts. Despite the dramatic changes in the market and fleeting trends, what is real, true, and ultimately uplifting continues to resonate with audiences.
Both Diamond and Weissman are married and have five children between them, ranging in age from middle school to college.
