Dan Fogelman (born February 19, 1976) is an American television producer and screenwriter whose screenplays include Cars, Tangled, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. He also created the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors, the 2015 fairy tale-themed musical comedy series Galavant, the 2016 drama series This Is Us, and the 2016 baseball drama series Pitch. Biography Fogelman grew up in what he has called an "endearingly dysfunctional" Jewish family in River Vale, New Jersey. He attended Pascack Valley High School in nearby Hillsdale. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997. He and his mother, Joyce, took a road trip from New Jersey to Las Vegas that became the basis for his 2012 film comedy The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen as a mother and son on a cross-country road trip. His father, named Marty, became the namesake of the father in the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors created by Fogelman, who has a sister who inspired the family daughter in this series. He is married to Caitlin Thompson, who stars as Madison on his family drama This Is Us and they share a son together born in 2020. Filmography Films Television films Television series References External links 1979 births American male screenwriters American television writers Animation screenwriters Jewish American writers Living people American male television writers Pascack Valley High School alumni People from River Vale, New Jersey Pixar people Screenwriters from New Jersey This Is Us Walt Disney Animation Studios people Television producers from New Jersey