Actor In 1991, Futterman landed his first stage role in the WPA production
Club Soda. He also succeeded
Joe Mantello as the voluble Louis Ironson in
Tony Kushner's
Tony award-winning play
Angels in America on Broadway in 1993. Futterman portrayed an American diplomat's son who runs into trouble in South Africa in Jon Robin Baitz's
A Fair Country (1996). He portrayed a slick card player with big dreams in
Dealer's Choice
(1997). Futterman's first film role was as a thug who menaces
Robin Williams in
The Fisher King (1991). He appeared as a teacher in the romantic comedy ''Breathing Room/'Til Christmas
(1996). Far Harbor/Mr. Spreckman's Boat
(also 1996) was an ensemble piece which featured Futterman as a smarmy doctor in an interracial relationship. Also in 1996, he played Val, the son of gay lovers and nightclub owners Albert and Armand (again with Robin Williams) in The Birdcage. He appeared as the American half of a pair of twenty-something con artists in London in Shooting Fish (1997). He also had the leading role as a young gay man seeking revenge for the murder of his lover in the NYC-based thriller Urbania. He played Joe in the 2002 film Enough, with Jennifer Lopez, and murdered journalist Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart'' (2007) with
Angelina Jolie. In late 2009, Futterman and Epstein were in
development with
HBO to write and executive-produce a half-hour drama series called "T" about a
trans man going through
gender transition; it is based on a story from the radio show
This American Life, and
Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp of
This American Life were slated to be executive producers as well. The series, scheduled as part of
SundanceTV's 2013–2014 lineup, was to be written by Futterman and Epstein. Futterman, with
E. Max Frye, wrote the screenplay for another Miller-directed film,
Foxcatcher (2014), a biographical
drama film starring
Steve Carell,
Channing Tatum, and
Mark Ruffalo. He and Frye were nominated for
Best Original Screenplay at the
87th Academy Awards.
Producer Futterman not only writes and acts in movies and on television, but often co-produces these projects as well. He has frequently written scripts and executive-produced alongside his wife, such as on the HBO series
In Treatment. Futterman also adapted and produced a ten-part series for Fox,
Gracepoint. Futterman, Lawrence Wright and Alex Gibney are executive producers of
The Looming Tower for
Hulu in 2018. He is the showrunner of the 2021
Showtime series
American Rust. ==Filmography==