Nick Weidenfeld

Nicholas Rabb Weidenfeld (born 1979 or 1980) is an American television producer and executive who led program development at Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Fox's Animation Domination High-Def. He won producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013 for the series Childrens Hospital. Since 2016, he has been the president of programming for television channel Viceland.

Weidenfeld was born in 1979 or 1980 to Edward Weidenfeld, a Washington DC lawyer, and Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, former press secretary to First Lady Betty Ford. He grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown Day School. While there, he parlayed his interest in rap into assignments writing up interviews for little-known popular culture magazines and websites. He started the alternative magazine While You Were Sleeping in the late 1990s, and reviewed music for magazines Seventeen and Teen Vogue. At Columbia University, he was a liberal arts major. He interned at the Pentagon.

In 2004, he arranged to interview Mike Lazzo, a senior executive at Atlanta's Cartoon Network for an in-depth piece (intended for Esquire magazine, but never published) about the network's Adult Swim block of programming. The two got along well. Lazzo wasn't familiar with Weidenfeld's satirical While You Were Sleeping, but his staff was. Partly on the strength of that, Lazzo offered him a job as director of program development at Adult Swim.

The position would entail shepherding projects from greenlighting to air. Adult Swim was a small operation at the time. Weidenfeld's first responsibility was to find talent, particularly developers outside the traditional animation pipelines, who could help the company grow beyond animation into live action. In seven years there, Weidenfeld developed, among others, Robot Chicken, the Peabody Award-winning animated series The Boondocks, Delocated, and Childrens Hospital. For Childrens Hospital he would win producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013.

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