Author/Star

“Just think, if it wasn’t for marriage
men would go through life not knowing they
had any faults at all!”
Peter Fogel – “Til Death Do Us Part… You First!”

Peter fogel

PETER FOGEL

Peter J. Fogel is an award-winning comedian, actor, and playwright who’s performed in the United States, Canada and Australia for over 25 years. In addition to writing and performing TIL DEATH DO US PART…YOU FIRST!, Peter’s also been the National Touring Star of Steve Solomon’s hit solo show My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy!

 

He has performed on some of the prestigous theaters/performing arts centers across North America:  Trinity Rep, Coral Springs Center of the Performing Arts, The Parker Playhouse, Herberger  Theater (to name just a few)

Peter is also a motivational speaker, copywriter, and author of five books – that include Reboot Your Career: 27 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in The Workplace (If You Still Have a Job). Over the decades, Peter has either worked or appeared on over twenty-two television programs such as Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road, Married With Children, Unhappily Ever After, Chicago Sons (Jason Bateman) and Men Behaving Badly! (Rob Schneider). Other network appearances include HBO, NBC MTV, PBS and A& E.

As an actor Peter was featured in the movie, Teen Wolf Too, with Jason Bateman and co-starred with Jeff Trachta (The Bold and The Beautiful) in the erotic Thriller, “Interloched.”

He was also seen in the video So You Want To Be An Actor with Christopher Walken, Stiller and Meara, and Roscoe Lee Brown.

Peter’s proud to say he’s trained along side such stars as Stanely Tucci (Broadway’s Frankie and Johnnie) Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible) Steven Weber (Wings, Broadway’s “The Producers”)

As a writer in Hollywood, Peter was a member of the elite Warner Bros. Comedy Writer’s Workshop and is a proud member of the Writer’s Guild of America as well SAG/AFTRA/AEA.

While there he had the privilege of working with and writing along side Producer Paul Jackson, television producer/writer of such shows as SheSpies, The Adventures of Lois and Clark, & Charmed.

Past writing assignments include writing for Germany’s #1 award-winning sitcom, Rita’s World (yes, they have comedy in Germany). The show consistently rates as the number one comedy program in all of Deutschland and was, I am proud to say, the recipient of the prestigious Adolf Grimme Preis award, which is that country’s equivalent of our “Emmy.”

Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri was a natural choice to continue the long line of prominent Italian actors in the film industry.  In the tradition set forth in the 1970s by such icons as director Martin Scorsese and actors Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, Palminteri has brought grit, muscle and an evocative realism to the sidewalks of his New York neighborhood, violent as they are and were.

Born in 1952, Palmintieri grew up in a tough area of the Bronx and it gave young Calogero (Palminteri’s given first name) the life lessons that 

Director – Chazz Palminteri

would later prove very useful to his career. He started out pursuing his craft in studying at the Actor’s Studio with Lee Straussberg. He appeared off-Broadway in the early 1980s while paying his dues as a singer in his own band.

Well known for A BRONX TALE, Palminteri originally wrote the script for the stage and performed it as a one-man show in Los Angeles.  It became the hottest property in Hollywood since ROCKY.  Mr. Palminteri was offered over a million dollars to walk away from the project and with $200.00 left in the bank he refused.  He wanted to play Sonny and write the screenplay.  One night Robert DeNiro walked in to see the show and as they say ”the rest is history.”  He then moved the production to New York, where it played for four sold-out months and earned him nominations for the New York Outer Critics Circle for both acting and writing.  While in New York he completed the screenplay of A BRONX TALE and soon found himself starring opposite Robert DeNiro, who chose the script for his directorial debut.  Currently A Bronx Tale the Musical just finished its Broadway run at the Longacre Theater and is currently on National Tour.  Chazz is the author of the book, a producer and just finished starring in the role of Sonny in the Broadway production.

Chazz has more than 50 movies to his credit including The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award nomination), Analyze This, Hurlyburly, Mulholland Falls, Faithful (screenplay also written by Chazz Palminteri), Poolhall Junkies, The Perez Family, Jade, Diabolique, Down to Earth and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.  Recent films include Final Recourse, Mighty Fine starring Andie MacDowell, Yonkers Joe, Jolene and The Dukes.  He has also directed the HBO series “Oz” (episode, “Unnatural Disasters”), Showtime’s “Women vs.Men” and the feature film Noel, starring Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Robin Williams and Paul Walker. He appeared on the New York stage in the play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring with Al Pacino, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Billy Crudup. Chazz is a member of the Actors Studio in NYC.

Chazz received the 1996 Leadership in Entertainment Award from the Coalition of Italian-American Association, Inc. and was honored by President Clinton with a Special Achievement Award for the Performing Arts from the National Italian American Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Chazz currently resides in Westchester County, NY with his lovely wife, Gianna and their two children, Dante & Gabriella.

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