Susanna Fogel

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Susanna Fogel is an American director, screenwriter and author, best known for co-writing the 2019 film Booksmart. Her many accolades include a DGA Award and nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards and the WGA Awards.

Early life and education[]

Fogel was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where her parents were both faculty at Brown University. Her father is the neuropsychiatrist and Harvard Medical School professor Barry S. Fogel, who founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and her mother, Margaret Selkin Fogel, is a psychologist.[1] In the summer before her senior year in college, she worked for James Schamus while he was producing Ang Lee's The Hulk. She graduated from Columbia University in 2002.[1] At Columbia, she was the director of its 2001 Varsity Show.

Career[]

Fogel and her writing partner Joni Lefkowitz originally wrote Life Partners as a one act play.[2] They eventually adapted it into a screenplay which Fogel went on to direct. The film premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.[3]

Fogel co-created and executive produced the Lionsgate/ABC drama series Chasing Life, which ran for two seasons.

Fogel co-wrote the script for Booksmart with Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman and was originally hired to direct the project, but was replaced during preproduction[citation needed]. The screenplay was later nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Frustrated by her experiences in the industry, Fogel co-wrote and directed the action-comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me. The film was released in 2018 and starred Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, the latter of whom had appeared briefly in Fogel's debut film.[4]

She directed the pilot episodes for the television series The Wilds on Amazon, and The Flight Attendant on HBO Max, which she also Executive Produced. She has also directed episodes of Gillian Flynn’s Utopia, also for Amazon, and the return of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories for Apple TV+. The Flight Attendant was nominated in the category of Best Television Series (Musical or Comedy) at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.

She has been announced as the director for the upcoming feature film 'Winner', about the life of American whistleblower Reality Winner,[5] and as the co-writer and director of the action-thriller 'The Mentor' for Sony Pictures.[6]

Fogel has also been announced as the director of Cat Person; a thriller based upon the short story by Kristen Roupenian that will explore "the hellscape of modern romance and the idea that we have all been the villain in someone else’s story, and the victim in others", and that will star Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun.

In April 2021 Fogel was awarded the DGA Award in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series category for her work on The Flight Attendant. In July of 2021 she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Comedy Director, also for The Flight Attendant.

Writing career[]

Fogel is a regular contributor to The New Yorker online.[7]

Her novel, Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters, was published in 2017.

Filmography[]

  • 'The Mentor' (announced), described by Deadline as "a character-driven action movie about two women of different generations navigating their fraught relationship in the workplace. The job at hand? The pursuit of an international fugitive arms dealer."[6] Fogel and writing partner David Iserson are producing the feature to be directed by Fogel, which is based on an original idea, for Sony Pictures.
  • 'Winner' (announced), a biopic about NSA leaker Reality Winner[5]
  • Booksmart (2019) (screenplay only)
  • The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
  • Life Partners (2014)

Television[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Wallace, Phil (Summer 2018). "In the Director's Chair". Columbia College Today. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  2. ^ McCormack, Colin (25 November 2014). "Filmmaker Interview: SUSANNA FOGEL, director/co-writer of LIFE PARTNERS". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  3. ^ Toro, Gabe. "Tribeca Review: 'Life Partners' Starring Gillian Jacobs, Leighton Meester And Adam Brody". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  4. ^ Riley, Jenelle (3 August 2018). "'The Spy Who Dumped Me' Director Susanna Fogel on Female Friendship and Sam Heughan". Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Russian Election Interference Movie in the Works From 'The Farewell' Producers". The Hollywood Reporter. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "'Booksmart' Scribe Susanna Fogel to Write and Direct 'The Mentor' for Sony; David Iserson Also Scripting". 5 April 2021.
  7. ^ Fogel, Susanna. "Susanna Fogel". Retrieved 14 January 2016.

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