Dan Futterman: The two biggest moments of my life were walking on-stage [as an actor] in Tony Kushner's Angels in America on opening night on Broadway. The second was being nominated for a screenplay Oscar along with him.
Dan Futterman (Discussing sexual orientation): I don't want to seem too blase about it, but I guess I don't make too much of a deal out of it either. People are attracted to different people, and to me, it's all the same.
The Advocate magazine featured an interview with Dan in February 2001. The interview segment was titled 'Gay-acting straight man'.
Dan has two daughters. His first, born in 2001 is named Sylvie Epstein Futterman, and his second daughter, born in 2005 is named Eve Futterman.
In 1993 Dan replaced Joe Mantello in the role of Louis Ironside in the two-part Broadway production Angels in America. He had a featured role in the Off-Broadway production A Fair Country by Jon Robin Baitz in 1996, and in 1997 he had a role in the play Dealer's Choice. In 2002 Dan returned to the NYC stage in Further Than the Furthest Thing at the Manhattan Theater Company.
He won the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor in Seattle International Film for his performance in Urbania (2000).
He wrote the screenplay for 2005's Capote; directed by childhood friend Bennett Miller and starring another childhood friend, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman walked away with an Oscar for the movie.
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