Joey Rotter is an award winning director, writer and actor.  Hailing from Chicago, the man loves his deep dish pizza and winters and will defend them until his last dying breath.  More importantly, he’s passionate about creating breathtaking films that connect us.  

After his time as a child actor in Chicago working at theaters such as Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Joey attended the University of Michigan where he majored in economics.  In 2012 he moved to New York City to run business operations and logistics for a charter school in Brooklyn.  Unable to keep his artistic side at bay, he eventually resumed studying acting, writing and improv at HB Studios, the Barrow Group and the Upright Citizens Brigade.  While his main focus is now filmmaking, he’s grateful for his years of experience working in education.   Schools can be as chaotic as a film set, and the ability to handle large scale logistical problem solving in a high pressure environment has revealed itself as a useful tool on the ol’ tool belt over here in filmland.

Joey sees humor as a lubricant to absorb complex and challenging ideas and he loves toying with genre as he did in his superhero satire play Captain Placeholder and the Adventures of We’ll Figure it Out Later and his first film short Dating a Murder Mystery Character.  He believes film has the unique power to reveal shared humanity and can traverse sensitive topics with nuance.