Dan Rosen

{{short description|American screenwriter and director (born 1963)}}

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| name = Dan Rosen

| image = Dan Rosen.jpg

| caption = Rosen on the set of Freeloaders

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|11|11}}

| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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| occupation = Screenwriter, film director

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| website ={{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20201204163210/http://rosenreads.com/|rosenreads.com}} (Archived)

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Dan Rosen (born November 11, 1963) is an American screenwriter and film director.{{cite web|title=Dan Rosen|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/530850/Dan-Rosen/filmography|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216141430/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/530850/Dan-Rosen/filmography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}

Rosen is best known for the films The Last Supper,{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=The Last Supper|year=1995|author=Janet Maslin|author-link=Janet Maslin|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01EEDE1339F936A35757C0A960958260}} which he wrote, as well as Freeloaders and The Curve, both of which he wrote/co-wrote and directed. The Last Supper and The Curve premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QsEAAAAMBAJ&q=the+last+supper&pg=PA47|title=Billboard|date=April 27, 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/dead-man-s-curve-1200452501/|title=Dead Man's Curve|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|date=January 25, 1998|magazine=Variety}}

In 2012, Rosen joined the writing staff of sitcom The First Family, rising from staff writer to supervising producer over the course of the show's run, writing four episodes (including the first season finale).{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Since 2017, Rosen assisted other screenwriters to improve their work via his website, now defunct.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}