Dan Trachtenberg
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast, all hosted at Revision3. He directed the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest," and various television commercials and public service announcements. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Trachtenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1981-05-11 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for
- The Boys (2019) — Executive Producer
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) — Director
- Prey (2022) — Story
- Black Mirror (2011) — Director
- Predator: Badlands (2025) — Story
- Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) — Director
- Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (2021) — Executive Producer
- Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) — Key Grip
- Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) — Self
- BlackBoxTV Presents (2010) — Director
- More Than You Can Chew (2011) — Director
- Scam School (2008) — Self
- Kickin' (2003) — Director
- Learned Behavior: Special Features at Work (2018) — Self
- The Totally Rad Show (2007) — Self - Host
- MILK — Idea