Adam Bertocci is a filmmaker, screenwriter, author, accidental playwright, tasteless humorist and aspiring polymath.

His award-winning short films, produced under his own banner of Guy in his Basement Productions, are mainstays on the festival circuit, exploring a wide variety of genres and topics with unforgettable performances, insightfully observed emotions and perversely miniscule budgets.

He has also written scripts for other filmmakers, most notably the short Christmas comedy Wreck the Halls, starring Mickey Rooney, and the underground horror hit A Brilliant Monster, which premiered at the famed Chinese Theatre. Whatever the scale or the genre, his scripts are acclaimed for their sharp dialogue and their playful blurring of the line between fantasy and reality.

Bertocci became both a playwright and an author off the meteoric success of his viral hit Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, a pop culture mashup that landed him theatrical production offers the day it went online, a literary agent in a week and a sold-out theatrical run off-off-Broadway within three months; it remains arguably the fastest-selling show in New York independent theatre history. The text is now published by Simon & Schuster in a beautifully illustrated, fully annotated edition to both commercial success and acclaim from critics and fans alike. He has since returned to writing for the stage with the heartfelt drama Miranda from Stormville, which premiered in New York to rave reviews.

In his apparently copious spare time he has contributed to The Guardian, The Toast, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Morning News and Splitsider.

His prolific output has been honored with a bevy of awards, honors, press attention and critical praise: click here for a complete and vaguely insufferable list.

Bertocci is a proud graduate of the film program at Northwestern University, with a minor in English literature. He works in and around New York; when not pursuing his own projects, he is an editor, titles designer and occasional animator / effects artist for film and television.

He is currently seeking representation as a screenwriter and, less actively, as a playwright. As an author, he is represented by Lindsay Edgecombe of the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.

He dislikes writing bios.

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