Dan Fogelman

Dan Fogelman (born February 19, 1976) is an American screenwriter and producer, whose screenplays include Cars, Tangled, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997.

He also created the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors, the 2015 fairy tale-themed musical comedy series Galavant, the 2016 drama series This Is Us, and the 2016 baseball drama series Pitch.

Fogelman grew up in what he has called an "endearingly dysfunctional" Jewish family in River Vale, New Jersey.

He attended Pascack Valley High School in nearby Hillsdale.

He and his mother, Joyce, took a road trip from New Jersey to Las Vegas that became the basis for his 2012 film comedy The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen as a mother and son on a cross-country road trip.

His father, named Marty, became the namesake of the father in the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors created by Fogelman, who has a sister who inspired the family daughter in this series.

He is married to Caitlin Thompson, who stars as Madison on his family drama This Is Us and they share a son together born in 2020.

Also uncredited wrote earlier draft for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).