Emmy-winning Writer, Producer, and Director Donick Cary got his start writing for Late Night with David Letterman. He continued writing for Dave at The Academy Awards (*not the “Oprah-Uma” joke) and served as both Head Writer and “The Guy in the Bear Suit” on Late Show with David Letterman. 

After seven years in late night, Cary moved to The Simpsons, where he served as a Co-Executive Producer for seasons seven through eleven, winning an Emmy and penning many memorable episodes including “D’oh-in in The Wind,” “In Marge We Trust,” (featuring Mr. Sparkle) and “Hell Toupee”  (Homer gets the hair transplants of a killer). 

Cary has since served in the same capacity on Just Shoot Me, Bored to Death, New Girl, Silicon Valley, AP Bio, Welcome To Flatch, Carol and the End of the World and Parks and Recreation where he also played the character Vern Palletta (aka DJ Jazzy Vern). Cary also Executive Produced The Naked Trucker and T-Bones show for Comedy Central and had a hand in creating The Osbournes for MTV.

In 2004 Donick created the animated series Lil’ Bush for Ampd mobile cell phones. The show was quickly picked up by Comedy Central and became the first web series ever to move from the internet to television. To handle the animation Donick co-founded Sugarshack Animation with offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. Over it’s 16 years Sugarshack produced and aired hundreds of hours of animation for everyone from Fox’s “New Girl” to Netflix’s “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics”  to music videos for the likes of Moby and Yo La Tengo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2KOyrtq6o.)  

In 2007, after a rash of teen suicides in his hometown of Nantucket Island, Donick founded Musack.org, a 501©3 charity that provides musical instruments and classes to under-served youth around the world. Donick has also served on the board of The Nantucket Film Festival for over 20 years.  

2020 brought the release of Cary’s feature directorial debut: “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics,” which was selected by SXSW and debuted on Netflix in May, climbing to number one on the platform in it’s first month.  Cary is currently shopping his new docmentary, “Hail to the Breadsticks: Football, Fatherhood and Surviving Change!” a very personal look at team mascots, fatherhood, and what it means to be Native American in America today.