Robbie Fox

During high school studied comedy writing with Danny Simon For college went to Northwestern for theater and later NYU for screenwriting Big break in 1987 at 23 was picked to direct a short for Columbia Pictures Discovery program under Chairman David Putnam Fox wrote directed the award winning short The Great OGrady which premiered at Sundance and led to him selling So I Married An Axe Murderer to Columbia and a directing deal at Disney with Chairman Jeff Katzenberg In addition to listed credits did uncredited polishes for various TV and movies including My Girl 1991 with Dan Aykroyd Macaulay Culkin Disneys animated Runaway Brain 1995 and Woody Woodpecker 2017 For the stage wrote book for an original musical called Complications for director Herbert Ross which workshopped at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York and later ran at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles called The Gift starring Alicia Witt and under Andy Fickmans direction 2020 Kevin Hart Woody Harrelson are currently in production in Robbie Foxs action comedy The Man From Toronto Story by Fox Jason Blumenthal produced by Escape Artists Productions for Sony Pictures and to be released Labor Day 2021