Dan Lawler is an American producer, writer, director and line producer originally from Rochester, NY. After moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to study improvisation at The Groundlings Theatre & School, Dan spent his first years in LA acting & doing stand-up comedy before becoming established in production. More recently, Dan has worked with Miramax [us] on their feature films, He's All That (2021), Sick (2022), Old Dads (2023), The Beekeeper (2023), Strange Darling (2024), Here (2024) and others, with Scott Free Productions [us] on Jungleland (2020) and Our Friend (2019), as well as Los Angeles units for FilmNation Entertainment [us]'s The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021), and Netflix's Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2021). In 2023, Dan moved into independent development on a slate of feature films.