Tony Winner Dan Fogler Signs On to TBS Comedy Pilot

TVLine.com reports that Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler will join SNL alumna Abby Elliot in an upcoming comedy pilot for TBS titled LIVING THE DREAM. Josh Heald will write the script and serve as co-executive producer along with David Kissinger and Jeff Ross.

The half-hour comedy project, from Conan O'Brien's Production Company, follows "charismatic twenty-something Connor Logan and his best friends, who reinvigorate a town on the verge of losing its identity by acquiring and re-opening the local brewery."

Elliott will portray Connor's witty pal Annie, who has recently sequed from working as a graphics designer to Being relegated to a "greeter" position at Wal-Mart.

Fogler will play another one of Connor's friends, Russ, described as "a childlike night janitor at the brewery who was laid off when it closed and who now cleans out people's garages."

Fogler became well-known mostly after his Tony Award winning performance as William Barfée in the Broadway show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Fogler's film credits include Balls of Fury, Good Luck Chuck, Fanboys, and Take Me Home Tonight. He is a voice actor in the 2008 animated films Horton Hears a Who! and Kung Fu Panda.

His play Elephant in The Room, inspired by Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros was accepted into The NY International Fringe Festival 2007. Fogler is editing his own film, Hysterical Psycho, which he also directed. Fogler is due to play the titular role of Sam Kinison in HBO Film's biopic Brother Sam.

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