Dan Fogler | Thomas Sullivan | Glen Trotiner
Dan Fogler established himself with his role of William Barfee in Broadway musical hit “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” His performance brought Fogler a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor (Musical), a Theatre World Award, Outer Circle Award, and a Drama Desk Award as part of the Outstanding Ensemble Performance. He also received The Lortel Award For Spelling Bee’s off-Broadway run. The show was his Broadway debut, and he played the part on Broadway for nine and one half months. Fogler, as a part of The Farm Acting troupe, he helped originate the show and created the character of William Morris BarFee as the Improvisational play “C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E in 2002″. The hit musical has jump-started his film career, and Fogler starred in the comedy Balls of Fury (2007). Aside from his other film work, Fogler was the voice-over for two distinct characters in Horton Hears a Who! He has written a play, “Elephant in The Room” inspired by Ionescos’ Rhineoceros (1974), which has produced by the New York International Fringe Festival 2007. Fogler also directed the production. He has in addition, written and directed his first film, “Hysterical Psycho.” which features actors from his theater company Stage 13 where Dan serves as one of the company’s Artistic Directors.
Thomas is both an actor and producer. His latest producing credits include “the9thdot”, an interactive web thriller series. This winter he joined forces with acclaimed London producers Rotozazz and the Foundry Theatre of NYC to present “Etiquette” as part of The NY Public Theatre’s new “Under the Radar” festival. He is Executive Producer and also an actor in “Hysterical Psycho”, a feature horror film written and directed by TONY winner and “Balls of Fury” actor Dan Fogler. Thomas produced “Elephant in the Room”, also written and directed by Dan Fogler which opened to praise at the 2007 NYC Fringe Festival. Thomas co-founded the Deertrees Theatre Festival; he has served as an Executive Producer and acted since its inception.Thomas has produced over 30 Equity showcases in NYC under GreenLight TheatreWorks and Off-Broadway credits include “Voyage of the Carcass, ” which Premiered at the 2005 Deertree Theatre Festival. He originated and still produces “A Little Bit Louder” a weekly NYC poetry series that has won 2 National Poetry Slam Championships and features the country’s brightest spoken word artists.
Glen Trotiner has over twenty-five years experience in hands on production, on everything from micro-budget Internet ‘webisodes’ to large-scale Hollywood summer blockbusters. He entered the film business when he was accepted into the highly competitive Director’s Guild of American Training Program. After two years apprenticing on films directed by Sidney Lumet, Michael Apted, and Gene Saks, he was hired as an Assistant Director on “The Untouchables”. He went on to be the right hand of a long list of A-list directorson films as diverse as “Phone Booth” and “Big Daddy”.
Trotiner has also helped produce several independent films including the Emmy nominated “Bernard and Doris”/ He wrote the thriller “A Day in November”, which is in development at Warner Brothers, and also wrote and directed the well-reviewed “Overnight Sensation”. Besides having a full slate of upcoming projects, he now also serves on the board of trustees of the very training program, which helped propel him into the industry.
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