Jared Raab

Jared Raab is a Canadian writer and filmmaker best known for his work on the television series Nirvanna the Band the Show Originally from Millbrook Ontario Raab studied film at York University He made a number of short films before breaking through to wider attention with his 2011 short The Revenge Plot which won the Fan Favorite award at the 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition For a number of years thereafter he was a director of music videos for artists such as Born Ruffians Arkells Ohbijou Diamond Rings PS I Love You Snailhouse Young Rival and Fast Romantics He received two Prism Prize nominations as a director of music videos in 2017 for July Talks Picturing Love and in 2021 for Andy Shaufs Clove Cigarette He was cinematographer on Matt Johnsons films The Dirties and Operation Avalanche prior to Johnson and Jay McCarrol creating Nirvanna the Band the Show for which Raab was both a cinematographer and one of the writers He is a twotime Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for Nirvanna the Band the Show receiving nods at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for The Bean and at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for The Book and a nominee for Best Direction in a Documentary Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for This Is Pop