Biography

About

Award-winning writer across television and audio, based in Manhattan.

Brett Neichin with a coffee on a sunny studio backlot outside Stage 15
On the backlot, Stage 15

Brett Neichin is an award winning writer across multiple platforms. He is the creator of Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death, a Hulu original true crime docuseries about extreme biohacking, influencer culture, and a string of mysterious deaths in Thailand.

Brett’s breakout hit was the global phenomenon The Cipher (BBC Sounds), a sci-fi thriller podcast starring Anya Chalotra (The Witcher) that hit #1 on the iTunes drama chart, was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award, and was named one of the 50 greatest podcasts of all time.

His other credits include Tagged for Sony Music, starring Jessica Plummer and Ben Hardy, which is now being developed for TV by MGM Studios. SteelHeads, starring Jessica Barden, for BBC Radio 4; Restart for BBC Sounds; and The Sisters for Realm, starring Mae Whitman, which won the 2024 Aria Award for Best Podcast of the Year.

He is also the creator of the Audible Original Young Blood, a techno thriller about a mysterious longevity company that was named among the top five Audible Originals on the platform. Brett recently created an original TV series called The Midnight Room that sold to Blumhouse Studios. And he has several other TV/film projects in development that will be announced soon.

For years Brett kept a day job as a personal trainer at the JCC in Manhattan, and he’s a competitive brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Brett Neichin grinning at Blumhouse Studios beside framed posters for The Purge: Anarchy
Blumhouse Studios

Frequent collaborators — John Scott Dryden (director/EP), Janina Matthewson (The Cipher, additional writing), Mac Rogers (The Sisters), Emma Hearn (producer).

Credits by year

Timeline

  1. 2026Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death — Creator, Hulu
  2. 2023The Sisters — Co-creator / Co-writer, Realm
  3. 2023Tagged — Co-creator / Co-writer, Sony Music × Goldhawk
  4. 2022Young Blood — Writer / Creator, Audible Original
  5. 2022Restart — Co-creator / Co-writer, BBC Sounds
  6. 2021SteelHeads — Co-creator / Co-writer, BBC Radio 4
  7. 2020–21The Cipher — Writer / Creator, BBC Sounds

On the record

Press

“Pulse-pounding, breathtaking… like an HBO mini-series for the ear.”

— LA Weekly, on The Cipher

“A screenwriter who took 20 years to become Hollywood’s latest overnight sensation.”

— SYFY Wire

“The Cipher is a sci-fi thrill ride, and it’s a global podcast sensation.”

— SYFY Wire, on The Cipher

“Twists and turns a-plenty.”

— Miranda Sawyer, The New European, naming The Cipher one of the 50 greatest podcasts
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