Dan Fogler

Daniel Kevin "Dan" Fogler (born October 20, 1976) is an American actor, playwright and filmmaker.

Career
Fogler became well-known mostly after his Tony Award winning performance as William Barfée in the Broadway show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Fogler's film credits went on to include Balls of Fury, Good Luck Chuck, Fanboys, and Kids in America. He is a voice actor in the 2008 animated films Horton Hears a Who! and Kung Fu Panda. He was featured in the music video "I Don't Wanna Be Me" by the band Type O Negative, playing a man recording himself on video as he cross-dresses and puts on celebrity costumes.

His play Elephant in The Room, inspired by Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros was accepted into The NY International Fringe Festival 2007. Fogler is editing his own film, Hysterical Psycho, which he also directed.

Fogler is due to play the titular role of Sam Kinison in a HBO films biopic Brother Sam.

Personal life
Fogler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of an English teacher mother and a surgeon father.

Fogler is Jewish and resides in New York's Chelsea, and plays with his friend Law Tarello in an eclectic hip-hop, hard rock, metal band called Second Rate.