Ep. 164 - Susanna Fogel "Cat Person"

Susanna Fogel is the director of CAT PERSON, based on the acclaimed New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian. When Margot, a college sophomore (Emilia Jones) goes on a date with an older man named Robert (Nicholas Braun), she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts. CAT PERSON is a razor-sharp exploration of the gender divide, the quagmire of navigating modern dating and the dangerous projections we make in our minds about the person at the other end of our phones. Fogel recently completed directed episodes for the WWII-set limited series SMALL LIGHT for NatGeo and Disney+ starring Bel Powley and Liev Schreiber. Prior feature work includes cowriting the hit comedy BOOKSMART, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and a WGA Award, directing and cowriting Lionsgate's THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, and directing and cowriting Magnolia Pictures' LIFE PARTNERS, which she developed at the Sundance Lab. On the television side, her directing credits include the pilot episode of the HBO Max series THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, for which she won a DGA Award and was nominated for an Emmy, the pilot of the Amazon series THE WILDS, episodes of Gillian Flynn’s remake of UTOPIA, and an installment of Steven Spielberg’s AMAZING STORIES. Most recently, she wrapped production on WINNER, a feature biopic of American whistleblower Reality Winner starring Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, Zach Galifinakis, and Kathryn Newton. Among other projects, Susanna is currently developing a 1970s Moscow-set television series for Peacock and an action movie for Sony.