Fairfax Creators Matt Hausfater, Teddy Riley, and Aaron Buchsbaum Ink First-Look Deals With Amazon Studios

Amazon Studios announced today it has signed  first-look deals with producers Matt Hausfater, Teddy Riley, and Aaron Buchsbaum. The trio  created and produced the upcoming Amazon Original animated comedy, Fairfax, and recently  formed the production banner The Adorable Trio. They will create and produce projects to  premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. 

“We are incredibly excited to expand our working relationship with Amazon. They have been  amazing creative partners on Fairfax and we look forward to collaborating with them for the rest  of time… or until the deal expires,” said Hausfater, Riley, and Buchsbaum. 

“We love what Matt, Teddy, and Aaron did with Fairfax—create a great animated comedy with  distinctive, culturally relevant characters,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon  Studios. “From hypebeast humor to wise-cracking pigeons, we love the way they collaborate to  make smart and hysterical projects and look forward to what they do next, which is sure to have  our audiences doubled over in hysterical laughter.” 

Riley and Buchsbaum met in college at the University of Southern California, studying business  and film. Together, they wrote a feature comedy spec, El Tigre, which made The Black List and  was sold to Sony (with Mosaic Entertainment producing) in a competitive bidding war. Since  then, they have written and sold projects to Sony, CBS, MGM, Paramount, Universal, Comedy  Central, Roku, and Prime Video. 

Hausfater graduated from Boston University’s College of Communications in 2007. After moving  to Los Angeles, his first feature, Ex-Boyfriend of the Bride, landed on The Black List in 2012.  Since then, Hausfater has been a staff writer on Undateable for NBC and a co-producer on Club  de Cuervos for Netflix. Additionally, he has developed and created original series for Phil Lord  and Christopher Miller at FOX and Bill Lawrence at NBC. 

Riley and Buchsbaum are both represented by Michael Lasker at Mosaic, Ryan Draizin at WME  and Jeffrey Frankel at McKuin Frankel & Whitehead. 

Hausfater is represented by Lindsay Perraud at Kaplan/Perrone, Allan Haldeman/Matt  Baldovsky/Jordan Lonner at UTA, and Robby Koch at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman,  Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, LLP. 

Riley, Buchsbaum, and Hausfater are all represented by Kovert Creative. 

Read our interview with the Fairfax trio here.