Dan Trachtenberg

Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host.

He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer.

Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a f…