Brendan Patrick Hughes is a filmmaker, podcast producer, performance artist, and professor. He directed the feature film "Dindin" and the documentary "The Metal Detector. He created, produced, and hosted the documentary podcast "Divine Intervention." He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Sands College of Performing Arts at Pace University in New York City. He previously taught at Santa Monica College and Occidental College. Hughes's first comedy album, "The Pizzicato Effect," was released in 2014. His second album, "Mediocrity: A Sophomore Effort," also recorded in New York in 2018, will perpetually be released ‘next year.’ Hughes began his career in the theater, where was Producing Artistic Director and Founder of the Theatre Cooperative in Boston, Artistic Director of the legendary Yale Cabaret, and Impresario of the Harbor Stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.