Bryan Fogel

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Bryan Fogel (* early 1970s in Denver , Colorado ) is an American dramaturge , director , screenwriter and film producer who became internationally known for the cinema production Jewtopia .

life and career

Bryan Fogel, born in Denver, Colorado to David and Linda Fogel's three children, graduated from East High School and the University of Colorado Boulder . Together with Sam Wolfson he developed and wrote the play Jewtopia , an off-Broadway comedy. The play premiered in Los Angeles in 2003 and ran in over 300 performances, after which the play moved to the off-Broadway Westside theater in New York in 2004, where it ran for more than three years and made over a thousand appearances until closure in April 2007. Jewtopia holds the record for being the play with the longest and fastest amortized productions in off-Broadway history.

In 2012 Bryan Fogel made his directorial debut as a feature film director with the film adaptation of Jewtopia . He also acted as a screenwriter and executive producer on the film. Jennifer Love Hewitt , Crystal Reed and Peter Stormare played the leading roles . The film was shown as the opening feature at the Malibu Film Fest .

Together with Sam Wolfson, Fogel is also the author of the bestseller Jewtopia: The Chosen Guide for the Chosen People . The book was published by the Hachette Book Group. In 2009 Fogel also had a short guest appearance as an actor in the cinema production Die Jagd zum Magischen Berg .

His second film, Icarus , in which he exposes the Russian doping system, won an Oscar for best documentary in 2018.

Filmography

As a director

As a screenwriter

As a film producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David DeWitt: 'Jewtopia,' a Comedy Directed by Bryan Fogel . In: The New York Times . September 19, 2013, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ 'Jewtopia' to Open Malibu Film Fest . In: Malibu, CA Patch . September 22, 2012, ( patch.com [accessed April 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Evi Simeoni: Oscars for "Icarus" and Bryant: "Bach must resign" . In: FAZ.NET . March 5, 2018, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Fogel, Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dramaturge, director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado