Dan Perlman is a comedian, writer, director, and actor from New York City. Dan is an Executive Producer and co-creator-writer-star of the Showtime series, Flatbush Misdemeanors, which ran for two seasons on Showtime. He also directed an episode in Season 2. Dan co-created the award-winning digital series of the same name, which became Oscar-qualified after winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative short at the 2018 Florida Film Festival. He also wrote and directed the short film, Cramming, which won the Audience Award at the 2020 Brooklyn Film Festival and First Prize at the 2020 Rhode Island International Film Festival. Dan was a writer for SiriusXM’s Bennington, a Comedy Contributor for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio, and he wrote for the 2017 & 2018 WGA Awards. As a stand-up, Dan has been featured on Comedy Central and was named a “New Face” at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. Previously, Dan created and wrote an animated series, That’s My Bus!, which received a pilot order from FOX and appeared in the Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show on Netflix. In May 2020, he released his debut stand-up album, EMERGENCY CONTACT.
