---
name: "Dana Fox"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dana-fox"
fi1m_id: "dana-fox"
imdb_id: "nm1401416"
tmdb_id: 56718
wikidata_id: "Q5214724"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "16 July 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T01:56:54.901533+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dana Fox

## Identity

Dana Fox

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dana-fox
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dana-fox
- **IMDb ID:** nm1401416
- **TMDB ID:** 56718
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5214724
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214724, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401416/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56718

Writer and producer. Born 16 July 1976 in Brighton, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 16 July 1976, Brighton, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 directing, 3 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Ariana Grande](https://film.one/person/ariana-grande.md), [Cynthia Erivo](https://film.one/person/cynthia-erivo.md), [David Stone](https://film.one/person/david-stone.md), [Jonathan Bailey](https://film.one/person/jonathan-bailey.md), [Jon M. Chu](https://film.one/person/jon-m-chu.md), [Marc Platt](https://film.one/person/marc-platt.md), [Michelle Yeoh](https://film.one/person/michelle-yeoh.md), [Winnie Holzman](https://film.one/person/winnie-holzman.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 65 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Fantasy 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,538m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214724, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401416/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56718

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*New Girl*](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md) (80), [*Cruella*](https://film.one/film/cruella.md) (66)
- **Peacock:** [*Wicked*](https://film.one/film/wicked.md) (70)
- **Netflix:** [*Wicked: For Good*](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Dana Fox

> Dana Fox’s work with Winnie Holzman on *Wicked* gives an unlikely friendship the attention it needs, and then some. We rate the care taken over the women more highly than the handling of the plot.

In *Wicked* (2024), Elphaba arrives at Shiz University as her sister’s carer and is put in a room with Galinda, who is appalled. The screenplay by Dana Fox and Winnie Holzman has a useful starting point: two people who have to learn to stand each other. We warmed to the film because that enforced closeness gives Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande a friendship to build, rather than one to announce. This is where we rate Fox’s work, in the attention paid to how a relationship develops. The plotting is less dependable.

Her first produced screenplay was *The Wedding Date* (2005), followed by romantic comedies including *What Happens in Vegas* (2008) and *Couples Retreat* (2009). She created and ran *Ben and Kate* (2012–13), then wrote features including *Cruella* (2021) and *The Lost City* (2022). The *Wicked* films make a particular demand on that experience: the relationship must develop while an established story reaches its appointed places. Her work on them is most persuasive when the first task gets priority.

Holzman wrote the stage show’s book, and we cannot sensibly separate her contribution to these screenplays from Fox’s. Both films are directed by Jon M. Chu; his care with the songs in *Wicked* gives the writing something to live up to. In that film, the first half of the stage musical becomes 162 minutes of cinema, and the relationship cannot justify all that extra time.

*Wicked: For Good* (2025) makes the difficulty plainer. Fox and Holzman have to finish the story of the two friends and connect it to *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), with every hat and slipper accounted for. They manage the friendship; the connecting plot keeps interrupting it, and the songs have to compete for time in an over-long film. That is a significant limitation in writing that otherwise takes its characters seriously. Start with *Wicked* for the women, and be prepared to wish their writers had been firmer about the length.

## Biography

Dana Fox is an American screenwriter. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and art history in 1998 and from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Producing Program in 2000. She initially aimed to become a producer but turned to screenwriting after enjoying a university assignment to write a screenplay.

Fox is known for her work on romantic comedies including *The Wedding Date* (2005), *What Happens in Vegas* (2008), *Couples Retreat* (2009), *How to Be Single* (2016) and *Isn't It Romantic* (2019). She co-wrote the screenplay for *Cruella* (2021) and *The Lost City* (2022), and collaborated with Winnie Holzman on the screenplays for *Wicked* (2024) and *Wicked: For Good* (2025). She has also worked in television, creating the series *Ben and Kate* (2012–13).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

### Directed (1)

- *New Girl* (2011), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Wicked: For Good* (2025), Fi1m 64, Screenplay, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md)
- *Wicked* (2024), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/wicked.md)
- *Cruella* (2021), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Little House on the Prairie* (2026), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-house-on-the-prairie.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Little House on the Prairie* (2026), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-house-on-the-prairie.md)
- *Wicked: For Good* (2025), Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md)
- *Wicked* (2024), Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/wicked.md)
- *Moonshot* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Lost City* (2022), Screenplay
- *Cruella* (2021), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md)
- *Home Before Dark* (2020), series, Writer, Creator
- *Isn't It Romantic* (2019), Screenplay
- *How to Be Single* (2016), as Pregnant Bridget · Producer, Screenplay
- *Hot Pursuit* (2015), Producer
- *Ben and Kate* (2012), series, Creator
- *New Girl* (2011), series, Producer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)
- *Couples Retreat* (2009), as Waitress · Screenplay, Associate Producer
- *Childrens Hospital* (2008), series, Writer
- *What Happens in Vegas* (2008), Screenplay
- *The Wedding Date* (2005), Screenplay
- *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*, Screenplay
- *An Officer and a Gentleman Remake*, Writer
- *Untitled Sandra Bullock & Dana Fox Film*, Writer, Producer

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