Bryan Norton

Bryan Norton was born on Apr 21, 1969 in USA. Bryan Norton's big-screen debut came with Penny Dreadful directed by Bryan Norton in 2005.

Bryan Norton has an M.F.A. degree in Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Film Program, and a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Sarah Lawrence College. He wrote and directed the award winning horror film Penny Dreadful with a generous grant from Warner Bros, starring Friday the 13th's Betsy Palmer and has won over one hundred film festival awards worldwide. As a professor and lecturer of film, Bryan has taught film directing and screenwriting throughout the United States since 2001 and served as the chairperson of The New York Film Academy. He also has consulted on several documentaries, books and articles relating to the history and analysis of the horror genre, including Butcher Knives and Body Counts: Essays of the Formula, Frights and Fun of the Shalsher Film, Going To Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film , Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel and Fangoria Magazine. The youngest of nine children, Bryan grew up in New England.