After graduating from Brown University, DJ Nash headed right to Manhattan to begin his career doing stand-up in the New York comedy scene.

In 2000, he was named Best New Face at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, which led to a deal with CBS where he co-created and starred in the CBS pilot “Life with David J,” along with Elliott Gould. Nash has been writing (and not acting) ever since.

In 2014, Nash created and executive produced the NBC series “Growing Up Fisher,” starring Academy Award® winner J.K. Simmons and Jenna Elfman. The show was based on Nash’s childhood growing up with a father who is blind and with parents who got divorced. The show featured the first visually impaired lead character in a comedy series (as well as the first guide dog).

In 2015, Nash created and executive produced his second series, “Truth Be Told,” starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tone Bell, directed by Pamela Fryman.

There’s an old saying: “Friendship isn’t a big thing … it’s a million little things.” Loosely based on Nash’s real-life experiences, “A Million Little Things” is an hourlong dramedy in the tone of “The Big Chill” and “Big Little Lies” which ran for 5 seasons on ABC and is available on Hulu. The series is about a group of friends who, for different reasons and in different ways, are all stuck in their lives. But when one of them dies unexpectedly, it’s just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living.

In 2019, the Television Academy awarded “A Million Little Things” its 12th annual Television Academy Honors, which represents “some of the most powerful and impactful television.

In 2022, the series received a Sentinel Award from Norman Lear Center & Hollywood, Health & Society for its episode discussing abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

In 2023, the series finale, which DJ directed and co-wrote, was nominated for the Humanitas prize.

Because of AMLT, DJ has become very involved with the mental health community, serving as an ambassador on PREVENTS, alongside the heads of every branch of the armed forces on a presidential task force aimed at reducing the suicide rate among veterans. He is also very active with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and with Didi Hirsch in Los Angeles.

Currently, DJ is developing a series for NBC and one for Hulu. He’s also making a documentary called Joy about a survivor of child sexual assault and her inspiring story of resilience.

DJ lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids, who do their best to navigate having two parents who are obsessed with pickleball.