Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland is an Australian creative director, establishing design agency Studio Jack in 2008. He has also been involved in the entertainment industry as a producer, working on a variety of events and productions, from festivals to musical theatre productions and large scale concert events. Prior to 2008, Carland trained and worked in general management with Laura Green in New York on Broadway, working on the Broadway productions of "The Producers" and "Hairspray", culminating in working as assistant to Mel Brooks for the Broadway production and cast recording of "The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein", which opened
Mel Brooks Brooks started working in various Borscht Belt resorts and nightclubs in the Catskill Mountains as a drummer and pianist. Around this time, he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks" (from his mother's maiden name Brookman) after being confused with the Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. After a regular comic at one of the nightclubs was too sick to perform one night, Brooks started working as a stand-up comic, telling jokes and doing movie-star impressions. He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank, New Jersey, and did some radio work. He eventually worked his way up to