Robbie Fox

Biography

During high school, studied comedy writing with Danny Simon. For college: went to Northwestern for theater and later NYU for screenwriting. Big break in 1987: at 23, was picked to direct a short for Columbia Pictures' Discovery program, under Chairman David Putnam. Fox wrote & directed the award winning short "The Great O'Grady" which premiered at Sundance and led to him selling "So I Married An Axe Murderer" to Columbia and a directing deal at Disney with Chairman Jeff Katzenberg. In addition…