J.B. Sugar currently works as a director, writer and producer at the Vancouver-based production company, No Equal Entertainment. His most recent credits include directing 2 episodes of The Troop for Nickelodeon as well as executive producing and showrunning 13 episodes of the CBC one-hour dramedy, jPod, based on the best selling novel by Douglas Coupland. jPod was nominated for best series at the 2008 Monte Carlo International Television Festival as well as the 2008 Leo Awards, where J.B. also earned nominations for his writing and directing efforts. Just prior to his work on jPod, J.B. directed an episode of Painkiller Jane for Sci-Fi and Global TV.

After relocating to Vancouver in 2003, J.B. spent three seasons on the one-hour drama, The Collector, where he directed 8 episodes and produced 40 for Chum/CityTV. In 2005, J.B. received the Leo Award for Best Director for an episode of The Collector called “The Historian” and his producing efforts were honored at the 2006 Monte Carlo International Television Festival when The Collector was nominated for best dramatic series (alongside 24, Lost, and Six Feet Under).

Between shooting the first two seasons of The Collector in 2004, J.B. co-wrote and directed VH1’s pilot for the half-hour mocumentary series, Human Safari.

In 2003, J.B. produced an adaptation of John Knowles’ classic novel, A Separate Peace, for Paramount and Showtime. The film went on to earn J.B. an Emmy nomination.

In 2002, J.B. collaborated with Henry Winkler when he co-created and executive produced 40 episodes of GSN’s game show, Wintuition.

J.B.’s career in production began while studying communication at Tulane University, where he worked as a production liaison for the New Orleans Film Commission. He went on to earn an MFA from The American Film Institute (AFI) in 1999.

During his first year as a Producing Fellow at the AFI, J.B. produced 4 short films and his short film script, John, was among only eight projects chosen for film production during the second year of the program. John went on to receive the AFI’s most prestigious honor, the Franklin J. Schaffner Award, as well as the Gold Medal at the 1999 Student Academy Awards. The film was also short-listed for the Live Action Short Academy Award in 2000 and screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival where J.B. participated in Kodak’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase.

After graduating from the AFI, J.B. and his brother Michael formed Sugar Brothers Entertainment in Los Angeles, and managed to build an impressive slate of projects and a profitable management business. J.B. produced A Separate Peace and Wintuition under the Sugar Brother’s banner before relocating to Vancouver.

J.B. is currently a Canadian citizen living in British Columbia and a member of the DGC and WGC.