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Wrote the screenplay for कपोटी (2005), directed by one childhood friend, Bennett Miller, and starring another, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Dan's brother-in-law is the President of Baseball Operations of the Chicago Cubs and former General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. Theo Epstein.

Has two daughters with Anya Epstein. Sylvie was born in 2001 and Eve was born in 2005.

Graduate of Columbia University, New York (1989)

His family is Jewish (from Russia, Austria, Hungary, and Ukraine). His paternal grandfather was born in Kishinev, Russia (now Moldovia), and his maternal grandfather was born in Nemyriv, Ukraine.

Graduated Mamaroneck (NY) High School. Classmate of Bennett Miller. (1985)

He met his wife Anya on the set of Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) in late 1999 when she was a writer on the show.

Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.