Billy Frolick

Billy Frolick is an American writer and film director. Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Frolick graduated from NYU film school, where he studied under the famed professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian. In the eighties, Frolick moved to Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies as a script reader, agency assistant, and development executive. When the Writers Guild of America, west went on strike in 1988, his career as a journalist began. His first Premiere Magazine story, “Sink or Float,” served as the prototype for the magazine’s popular “Life at the Bottom” column. Frolick’s work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, The Huffington Post, and The Los Angeles...