Dan Fogler

Dan Fogler’s first television appearance was in 2002 on Fox’s 30 Seconds to Fame, as a contestant impersonating Al Pacino. Other television credits include recurring roles on ABC’s The Goldbergs, NBC’s Hannibal, CBS’s The Good Wife and voice work for Fox’s American Dad!. Fogler also has had starring roles in ABC’s Man Up! and Secrets & Lies, and starred in a music video for Type O Negative’s song “I Don’t Wanna Be Me”, in which he played a man recording himself on video dressed as celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, and finally the band’s singer, Peter Steele.
Fogler made his Broadway debut in 2005 with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The role of William Barfée won him the Theatre World Award for the original off-Broadway production and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the original Broadway production.

On film, Fogler starred in 2007’s Balls of Fury as Randy Daytona and in Good Luck Chuck opposite Dane Cookand Jessica Alba. He also had roles in Fanboys, Take Me Home Tonight, Scenic Route, Europa Report and the J. K. Rowling adaptation Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, released worldwide in November 2016.

Fogler has done a variety of voiceover roles in films such as Horton Hears A Who! with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey, Disney’s Mars Needs Moms, 2008’s Kung Fu Panda with Jack Black and Jackie Chan, and the 2013 comedy Free Birds.

Fogler wrote and directed the play Elephant in the Room in 2007, a work inspired by Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and produced by the New York International Fringe Festival. He also wrote and directed the film Hysterical Psycho, which premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and featured actors from Stage 13, a film and theater production company of which Fogler is a founding member. Fogler wrote, directed, and starred in Don Peyote (2014), with supporting performances from Josh Duhamel, Anne Hathaway, and Topher Grace.

In 2010, Archaia Entertainment published Fogler’s first graphic novel, the horror anthology Moon Lake. The collection of stories chronicles the past, present, and future of the most haunted town on Earth. His next graphic novel, Brooklyn Gladiator, was published in 2018 by Chapterhouse. Heavy Metal published Fogler’s graphic novel Fishkill in 2020.