Danny Rogers

Danny Rogers is a writer, director, and actor who tells provocative stories that explore complex identity issues and blur traditional genre lines. His mom is a black woman from Jamaica. His dad is a white man from New Jersey. He's a pale, ginger biracial man. The paradox of his mixed racial identit ... y and the strange experiences that come along with it inspire much of the writer, director, and actor's creative work. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor's in US history, Danny moved to New York City, where he got one of his first jobs as a membership desk assistant at an esteemed museum on 5th Avenue. Working in the fine art world was only a brief detour on his intended career path as he later broke into television production as a CBS Page for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a production assistant for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In 2022, he graduated with an MFA in Film & Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Danny is also the winner of the 28th Annual DGA Student Film Awards Jury Prize in the West Region/African American Category in 2022 for his thesis film, The Fairchild, which was screened at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in 2023. His brief time working at a prestigious museum in New York City and lifetime of feeling like a token in white institutions inspired the project. He is currently pursuing professional screenwriting and filmmaking in Los Angeles and looks to follow in the footsteps of a few of his main creative influences and other multi-hyphenate artists such as Spike Lee, Dave Chappelle, and Jordan Peele. read more