Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts (born September 22, 1984) is an American film and television director. His feature directorial debut, The Kings of Summer, screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, and also at the 2013 Cleveland International Film Festival. The film won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival. He also wrote and directed a short film which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW, Successful Alcoholics. He also co-wrote and directed the TV series Mash Up. In 2017, Vogt-Roberts directed the MonsterVerse film Kong: Skull Island. 2Early life Vogt-Roberts was born in the United States, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Detroit. 2Career Vogt-Roberts started his career producing and directing episodes of two web series, Memoirs of a Manchild (2009-2010) and Book Club (2009-2013), and directing nearly all the episodes of the web series Single Dads (2009-2011). After turning an episode of Memoirs of Manchild into the short film Mint in a Box (2009), in 2010, he wrote and directed the short film Successful Alcoholics, starring T.J. Miller and Lizzy Capla