Cherubic actor and singer Dan Fogler was born October 20, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York, to Shari, a teacher of English, and Richard Fogler, a surgeon. His brother, Jason, is a clinical psychologist. Fogler established himself with his role of William Barfee in the 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 part of The Farm Acting troupe, had helped originate the show and created the character of William Morris Barfee as the improvisational Off-Off Broadway 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) in 2007. Aside from his other film work, Dan also was honored to be the voice actor for two distinct characters in Horton Hears a Who! (2008) He has written a play, "Elephant in The Room," inspired by Ionescos' Rhinoceros (1974), which was 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 (2009), which features actors from his theater company Stage 13 where Dan serves as one of the company's Artistic Directors.

Dan is married to Jodie Capes, who runs Capes Coaching, a company helping actors and artists.

Jodie Capes Fogler (10 October 2009 - present)

Trivia

Won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor (Musical) for his performance in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee".
Plays in the band, "2nd Rate", with long-time friend, Law Tarello.
He is a founding member of Stage 13 Theater Company.
His dad is a surgeon.
Dan is also a talented sculptor.
His wife, Jodie Capes, runs Capes Coaching, a company in New York that helps actors and artists establish their careers.

In his Tony acceptance speech he said - I Feel like Rocky right now and she's my Adrian (acknowledging his girlfriend Jodie) We did it with this hair and this body. Be brave. Be different.
In explaining why he founded Stage 13 Theater Company with his lesser known but very talented good friends: "When you have a foot up on the glacier, you have to turn around and give the others a hand."