Erick Weiss, M.A.
Erick Weiss, M.A. is Founder and CEO of the Transnational Space Alliance Summit (TSAS) and President of Honeysweet Creative, the Los Angeles event production company he founded in 2007. A live-event producer since 1990, he now applies that craft to convening the global space economy.
Erick launched TSAS in June 2025 as a private-sector convening organization that brings together governments, aerospace, defense, diplomacy, and investment around the Artemis Accords, the NASA-led framework of principles for peaceful and transparent civil space exploration.
Its flagship event is the New Worlds Faire, scheduled from December 1 to 3, 2026 at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, with the Artemis Accords in Action Summit at its center. Produced by Honeysweet Creative in association with The Edge Of Company, the faire is presented together with New Worlds, the conference founded by our Rick Tumlinson. Its announced speakers include our Frank White, author of The Overview Effect, our Nancy Conrad, Chair of the Conrad Foundation, Inspiration4 pilot Sian Proctor, NASA astronaut Susan Kilrain, and space policy expert Greg Autry. Read New Worlds and the Transnational Space Alliance Summit Launch the First Global Space Faire in Houston.
Erick's turn toward space began at PCMA's Convening Leaders 2025 in Houston, where a session on the association's Space Cities Network introduced him to an industry projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2035. In an interview with our Angelica Sirotin of Sirotin Intelligence, he argued that space-industry gatherings lack the creative integrity and shared joy that make an audience remember an experience.
At Honeysweet Creative, Erick serves as executive producer for live events, media, and creative campaigns. For more than seven years he produced and directed the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards, growing the show from a small affair at Paramount Studios into one of the entertainment industry's must-attend events before the Oscars. Read Honeysweet Creative Team to Produce 9th Annual MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS.
In 2015 Honeysweet produced the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, hosted by the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee after the Federation of International Lacrosse recognized the Haudenosaunee as a sovereign host nation. The company also stages the annual L.A. Political Roast. In 2008, Erick received the Best Wedding award from The Special Event for the only wedding ever produced in Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, now the Dolby Theatre. Read Movie-Themed Real Wedding at the Kodak Theatre.
Between 2022 and 2025, Erick was Senior Executive Producer for The Edge of NFT, part of The Edge Of Company, working on large-scale Web3 gatherings including NFT LA and Outer Edge Riyadh.
Between 1990 and 2007, he was Executive Vice President of Along Came Mary Productions, long one of the leading gourmet caterers in Los Angeles. He ran the office and served as executive producer for its largest events, including eight years of the official GRAMMY Celebration for 6,000 guests at the Los Angeles Convention Center, produced for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
He also produced Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraisers in Los Angeles, events for Presidents Clinton and Bush, and a corporate awards show at the Kodak Theatre, working with artists including The Eagles, Paul Simon, Garth Brooks, and The Black Eyed Peas. Speaking with Street Fight, he recalled producing studio premiere after-parties, among them the Mission: Impossible premiere, and the first live webcast of a movie premiere. Read Rocking “The Experience” and Outer Space With Erick Weiss.
Before turning to production, Erick worked as an actor in film, television, and theatre between 1984 and 2000. He played Ensign Kane in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes Conundrum and Relics and Stephan in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Paradise, and made guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote, Full House, Melrose Place, and Beverly Hills, 90210. Visit his Memory Alpha page and IMDb page.
Erick earned his B.F.A. in Acting and Directing in 1981 from Syracuse University, where he was named to the Dean's List, and his M.A. in Drama and Theatre History in 1984 from the University of Toronto, graduating with a 4.0 grade average. In Toronto he taught graduate acting, wrote theses on Otto Brahm and on the teachings of Zeami, and performed at Hart House Theatre as Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest and Fabian in Twelfth Night.
A member of the Rotary Club of Los Angeles (LA5) since 2010, Erick served from 2018 to 2019 as the 110th President of the fifth-oldest Rotary club in the world. During his term the club awarded more than $200,000 in college scholarships for at-risk youth and another $100,000 for nonprofits serving homeless children in Los Angeles. Since 2021, he has chaired the LA5 Foundation, whose scholarship program is valued at approximately $12 million. From 2013 to 2016, he served on the Board of Governors of Pilgrim School, concluding his term as Chairman. Since 2026, he has been a Director of the PCMA Southwest & Pacific Chapter, and he has been a member of PCMA since 2025.
Erick speaks German and traveled to Krefeld, Germany as a high school Rotary exchange student. He is married with twin daughters.
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