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Dan Trachtenberg

Dan Trachtenberg
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Trachtenberg on location, shooting The Totally Rad Show, 2007
Born (1981-05-11) May 11, 1981 (age 35)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation Director, writer, podcast host
Spouse(s) Priscilla (Hernandez) Trachtenberg
Website dantrachtenberg.com

Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He directed the 2016 film 10 Cloverfield Lane. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show and a former co-host of Geekdrome. Both programs were hosted at Revision3. Trachtenberg is also the director of the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest" and the director of various television commercials and public service announcements.

Trachtenberg has directed commercials for Lexus, Nike, and Coca-Cola. In 2003, he directed the short film Kickin'. In April, 2008, he joined Tight Films, for which he collaborated with Matt Wolf on an alternate reality game for Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

He directed the internet show, Ctrl+Alt+Chicken.

In March 2011, Trachtenberg released a short film for BlackBoxTV titled More Than You Can Chew, starring J. Kristopher, Skye Marshall and Ian Hamrick. Trachtenberg co-wrote the story with Mark D. Walker.

On August 23, 2011, Trachtenberg released the short film Portal: No Escape, based on the video game Portal, which garnered over seventeen million views.

On October 13, 2011, /Film announced that Trachtenberg would be directing a science fiction action heist film for Universal Pictures with writer Chris Morgan.


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