Award-winning director Dan Klores has made six films during the last eight years, four of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.  Following The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003), Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005), and Crazy Love (2007), which also captured the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for best documentary film, he directed the dark operatic comedy, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks.  Klores is also a playwright; his latest play, Little Doc, premieres at New York’s Rattlestick Theatre in June.  Klores’s other films include the Peabody Award-winning Black Magic and Viva Baseball, which both explore his ongoing theme of exclusion from the mainstream.

 Mr. Klores grew up in Brooklyn.  He resides in Manhattan with his wife Abbe and three sons, Jake, Sam and Luke.