Roger Kumble
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Roger Kumble (born May 28, 1966) is an American writer and film director.
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Kumble was raised in Harrison, New York and graduated from Harrison High School. He attended Northwestern University, where he wrote for the Waa Mu show. He began his career as a playwright and director in 1993 with the Hollywood satire Pay or Play, which garnered him the LA Weekly Award for Best Comic Writing. His second play, 1997’s d girl, starring David Schwimmer, earned him four Dramalogue Awards. In 2003, Kumble completed his Hollywood trilogy with the critically acclaimed Turnaround, again starring David Schwimmer, which sold out its entire run in Los Angeles. Kumble made his feature-film-directorial debut with 1999’s Sony Pictures box-office hit, Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair; his screenplay transposed the French classic to modern New York. He followed with the Sony Pictures comedy The Sweetest Thing, starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Jason Bateman and Thomas Jane and New Line Cinema’s Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Ferris and Amy Smart. Both Sweetest Thing and Just Friends were voted two of the top twenty underrated films of the decade by the New York Post. Most recently, he directed Martin Lawrence, Raven Simone and Donny Osmond in Disney’s successful family-comedy College Road Trip. His next film Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields is due to be released in April of 2010. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Mary and three young children.
Filmography as writer
- Unveiled (1994)
- Senior Trip (1995)
- Provocateur (1998)
- Cruel Intentions (1999)
- Cruel Intentions 2 (2000)
Filmography as director
- Cruel Intentions (1999)
- The Sweetest Thing (2002)
- Just Friends (2005)
- College Road Trip (2008)
- Furry Vengeance (2010)
Awards
L.A. Weekly Award Best Comic Writing "Pay or Play" 1993
