Dan Trachtenberg | |
|---|---|
 Trachtenberg shooting The Totally Rad Show in 2007 | |
| Born | May 11, 1981 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Temple University |
| Occupation(s) | Director, writer, podcast host |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse |
Priscilla Hernandez (m. 2011) |
| Children | 1[1] |
| Website | dantrachtenberg |
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host.[2]
He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film.[3] For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter on which he also served as an executive producer.
Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast. All three programs were hosted at Revision3. He also directed the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest", and various television commercials and public service announcements. He is currently developing a TV series adaptation of the 1995 film Waterworld.
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- ^ Rachel Kurland, Scare Tactics Pay off for Cheltenham's Dan Trachtenberg. The Jewish Exponent. March 14, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
- ^ "69th Annual DGA Awards". dga.org. Retrieved February 24, 2019.