Our Team

Diamond Con is overseen by the following people…

Justin Robert Young

Justin Robert Young is the co-host of Night Attack along with Brian Brushwood. A graduate of Syracuse University, Justin has worked at several major metropolitan daily newspapers including The South Florida Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania. He has since written at the number one daily magic news site iTricks and is the host of three weekly podcasts and regular live chats featuring top names in the magic industry. In 2009 he served as an Associate Producer on the first season of G4 Underground. He also runs Weird Things with Matt Finley and magician Andrew Mayne, as well as the Weird Things Podcast with Brian and Mayne.

Brian Brushwood

For over a decade, Brian Brushwood has toured colleges nationwide, performing his award-winning bizarre magic show and skeptical lectures at over 1000 schools. Teller (of Penn and Teller) says “Brian Brushwood just kills me. He’s funny, dangerous, and brilliantly original. He’s going to be really famous, very soon.”  Brian has appeared on over two dozen national TV shows (including two appearances on The Tonight Show), and hosts the break-out series “Scam School,” named by iTunes as a Top Video Podcast of 2008 and 2009. Each episode of the show “dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street” teaches a usable street con, scam, or magic trick to score free drinks at the bar. New episodes are available every Thursday at ScamSchool.tv.  This bio is so out of date that it doesn’t even mention Night Attack, Hacking the System, or his #1 comedy albums!

Horseboy

Horseboy has been staffing at conventions since 2001.  He is co-founder of Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in the northeast United States with a 2015 attendance of over 25,000 people.  He is also the founder of Providence Anime Conference, the world’s first 21+ anime convention and the first anime convention in Rhode Island.  He is the creator of AnimeCons.com, the largest list of anime conventions on the Internet, as well as FanCons.com, which lists other conventions.  Horseboy is also producer, editor, and a host for AnimeCons TV, a video podcast covering fan conventions since 2009.  He also works for a major podcast network.

…and others TBD.