Billy Frolick

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Billy Frolick
Born
William Frolick

(1959-02-12) February 12, 1959 (age 65)
Alma materNew York University
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • director
Years active2005–present
Notable workMadagascar
Monster Island
PAW Patrol: The Movie

William Frolick (born 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Born and raised in

Writers Guild of America, west
went on strike in 1988, his career as a journalist began.

His first

Holocaust for Steven Spielberg
’s "Survivors of the Shoah" project.

Frolick has served as the pseudonymous author of several book-length parodies, including The Philistine Prophecy, Dumpisms, and The Ditches of Edison County, a national bestseller which was translated into Japanese and Italian. In 2005, Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, released The Five People You Meet in Hell; the latest, 2013's Downtrodden Abbey, a spoof of the award-winning TV series, is from St. Martin's Press. Frolick's 1995 Dutton book What I Really Want to Do is Direct tracked seven film school graduates over three years. Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh wrote, “If you are reading my words right now, you need to buy this book. Billy Frolick has produced the definitive text on what it's like to make a start in the film business. I found it absolutely riveting.” And from Publishers Weekly: “Essential reading.”

Frolick's directing debut, It is What it Is, a full-length feature from his original screenplay, stars Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and featured Stephen Tobolowsky (Memento) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing). It is What it Is screened at several global festivals, including the 2003 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Picture, as well as prizes for Best Screenplay and Best Directorial Debut. The film's cultural significance was noted by

New York Times Sunday Magazine
column "On Language," entitled "It Is What It Is." "A burst of the sentence's activity," Safire wrote, "followed Billy Frolick's movie with that title in 2001."

For

Ánima Estudios in 2017, The Big Trip in 2019, and the 2021 film adaptation of the Nick Jr. Channel's animated series, PAW Patrol
.

In addition to moderating and appearing on many international film school and festival panels, Frolick spent five years an adjunct instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he taught screenwriting.

Filmography

References

  • Frolick, Billy. What I really want to do is direct : seven film school graduates go to Hollywood / Billy Frolick. New York : Dutton, 1996. 359 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.

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