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= Nick Paley = Nick Paley is an American film and television director, writer and editor.

Early life
Paley is from Richmond, VT. He is the son of Dianne Lynch, president of Stephens College.

Education
Paley attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His thesis film, Picture Day, was nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the narrative category for the 35th annual Student Academy Award.

Career
Paley began as an editor on television shows such as IFC's Food Party and HBO's Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! and Adult Swim's The Heart, She Holler. In 2015 he was nominated for an Emmy Award and won an American Cinema Editors award for editing Inside Amy Schumer's 12 Angry Men parody episode. He would go on to direct for the show.

A short film that Paley wrote and directed, Andy and Zach, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

In 2014, Jenny Slate announced that she was working on a feature film adaptation of her and Dean Fleischer-Camp's popular short film Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. Paley served as co-writer on the project. He also co-directed a popular commercial campaign for Clearasil with Fleischer-Camp in 2016.

In 2019, Paley directed an episode of Comedy Central's Broad City, entitled "Stories," which first aired on January 24, 2019. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paley called the episode a "huge swing" for its use of social media styling to convey the episode's story.