Andy Fickman is an American

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, and

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. His credits as a theater director include the premiere of the ''Reefer Madness!'' musical, the first

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production of the play '' Jewtopia'', and the Los Angeles, Off-Broadway and London productions of '' Heathers: The Musical''. He made his screen directing debut in 2002 with the teen sex comedy ''Who's Your Daddy?''. The film was released directly to DVD in 2005. He is formerly the director and producer of ''

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'' on

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, as well as the CBS sitcom ''

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''. He also has a production company entitled Oops Doughnuts Productions. He directed comedy films ''

She's the Man ''She's the Man'' is a 2006 American romantic comedy teen sports film directed by Andy Fickman and starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, and David Cross. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Twelfth Night,'' t ...

'' (2006), '' The Game Plan'' (2007), '' Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2'' (2015) and '' Playing with Fire'' (2019). In 2021, he directed the first season of a

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workplace comedy series '' The Crew'' on

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Personal life

Fickman, who originates from

Midland, Texas Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan ...

, moved with his family to Houston in 1974, and went to

Lee High School (Houston, Texas) Margaret Long Wisdom High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a publicly funded secondary school located in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States 77057. The Houston Independent School District, the 7th largest school district in the ...

. Fickman is a graduate of

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sy ...

and a member of

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fraternity. He was raised in

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. In 2013, he was honored with the Alumni of the Year award by

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. In 2008, he started Oops Doughnuts Productions with a first look deal at Disney. On October 8, 2016, Fickman married Kristen Elizabeth Gura, aunt of two-term Georgetown Phantoms president Gaby Gura, in Kristen's hometown of Rochester, Minnesota.

Filmography

Films

Producer

Television

TV movies TV series

References

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