Fran Kranz (Los Angeles, USA) made his writing and directing debut with the feature film Mass (2021), which had its premiere at the Sundance Festival and participated in New Directors at the San Sebastian Festival. The film won the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2022 and landed a best screenplay nomination.

For more than twenty years he has carved out a career as an actor, starting with parts in Donnie Darko (2001), Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001), Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003), and The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and particularly including The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011), Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012), The Dark Tower (Nikolaj Arcel, 2017), The Truth About Lies (Phil Allocco, 2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Casey Wilder Mott, 2017), a movie he also produced and which had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

On television, he has performed in series such as Julia, The Loudest Voice, Homecoming, Dollhouse and Welcome to the Captain, while his other credits include Party Down, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Frasier. He is soon to be seen in the third season of Invasion.

In theatre he made his Broadway debut in 2012 with Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols, alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, going on to star in plays such as You Can’t Take It with You, opposite Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, Illyria, written and directed by Richard Nelson and Bachelorette, penned by Leslye Headland and directed by Trip Cullman.  

Fran Kranz (Los Angeles, USA) made his writing and directing debut with the feature film Mass (2021), which had its premiere at the Sundance Festival and participated in New Directors at the San Sebastian Festival. The film won the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2022 and landed a best screenplay nomination.

For more than twenty years he has carved out a career as an actor, starting with parts in Donnie Darko (2001), Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001), Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003), and The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and particularly including The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011), Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012), The Dark Tower (Nikolaj Arcel, 2017), The Truth About Lies (Phil Allocco, 2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Casey Wilder Mott, 2017), a movie he also produced and which had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

On television, he has performed in series such as Julia, The Loudest Voice, Homecoming, Dollhouse and Welcome to the Captain, while his other credits include Party Down, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Frasier. He is soon to be seen in the third season of Invasion.

In theatre he made his Broadway debut in 2012 with Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols, alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, going on to star in plays such as You Can’t Take It with You, opposite Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, Illyria, written and directed by Richard Nelson and Bachelorette, penned by Leslye Headland and directed by Trip Cullman.  

Fran Kranz (Los Angeles, USA) made his writing and directing debut with the feature film Mass (2021), which had its premiere at the Sundance Festival and participated in New Directors at the San Sebastian Festival. The film won the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2022 and landed a best screenplay nomination.

For more than twenty years he has carved out a career as an actor, starting with parts in Donnie Darko (2001), Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001), Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003), and The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and particularly including The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011), Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012), The Dark Tower (Nikolaj Arcel, 2017), The Truth About Lies (Phil Allocco, 2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Casey Wilder Mott, 2017), a movie he also produced and which had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

On television, he has performed in series such as Julia, The Loudest Voice, Homecoming, Dollhouse and Welcome to the Captain, while his other credits include Party Down, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Frasier. He is soon to be seen in the third season of Invasion.

In theatre he made his Broadway debut in 2012 with Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols, alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, going on to star in plays such as You Can’t Take It with You, opposite Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, Illyria, written and directed by Richard Nelson and Bachelorette, penned by Leslye Headland and directed by Trip Cullman.  

Fran Kranz (Los Angeles, USA) made his writing and directing debut with the feature film Mass (2021), which had its premiere at the Sundance Festival and participated in New Directors at the San Sebastian Festival. The film won the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2022 and landed a best screenplay nomination.

For more than twenty years he has carved out a career as an actor, starting with parts in Donnie Darko (2001), Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001), Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003), and The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and particularly including The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011), Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012), The Dark Tower (Nikolaj Arcel, 2017), The Truth About Lies (Phil Allocco, 2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Casey Wilder Mott, 2017), a movie he also produced and which had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

On television, he has performed in series such as Julia, The Loudest Voice, Homecoming, Dollhouse and Welcome to the Captain, while his other credits include Party Down, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Frasier. He is soon to be seen in the third season of Invasion.

In theatre he made his Broadway debut in 2012 with Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols, alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, going on to star in plays such as You Can’t Take It with You, opposite Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, Illyria, written and directed by Richard Nelson and Bachelorette, penned by Leslye Headland and directed by Trip Cullman.