Adam Rifkin
Adam Rifkin (also Rif Coogan, born December 31, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor.
Career
Rifkin began his career in film in 1989., He directed the comedy film Never on Tuesday, wrote the screenplay and also played a small role. Previously, Rifkin had already played in the same year in the film comedy Adam Sandler 's Love Boat, for which he also served as co- producer.
Also in 1989, he turned with Tale of Two Sisters his second film. As with his debut, he worked here together with the actors Peter Berg and Charlie Sheen. Latter sat Rifkin later repeated in lead roles and helped with so crucial to boost Sheen's career. The majority of his work was produced by Oscar winner Brad Wyman, with whom he has a longstanding friendship.
In 1996 he was involved as a director and writer on the television series Bone Chillers. The films The Invisible Maniac Psycho Cop Returns, and he wrote and directed under the pseudonym Rif Coogan. In 2007 he returned with the feature film look an unusual experiment in which exclusively surveillance cameras were used. In 2010, he processed the material for a TV series with the same title for the U.S. channel Showtime. In 2011 he was involved with the segment of the anthology film Chillerama Wadzilla, a co-production with Joe Lynch, Tim Sullivan and Adam Green. 1 November 2012, started again on SHOWTIME his 8- part TV series, reality show, a satire on the mechanisms of Reality TV. Rifkin acts not only as a writer and director, but also plays the lead role of dilapidated TV producer Mickey Wagner.