is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur, and former actor best known for his feature film directorial debut Outlaws and Angels. The film earned accolades at Sundance in 2016 for Mollner's use of Kodak film stock and vintage Panavision cameras and lenses. Mollner is also known for starring in the Las Vegas stage production of Tony n' Tina's Wedding, and he is heir to the Freakling Brothers haunted houses in Las Vegas, NV.
In 2005, after ending a year-long starring role in a stage production of Tony and Tina's Wedding at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, Mollner moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. Believing his dream to direct films was a long shot, JT did not pursue it immediately, instead taking small acting jobs to pay the bills, while writing screenplays in his spare time. Mollner soon became frustrated with acting in LA, explaining in an interview that he was tired of "being a tool in someone else's vision...having to read lines from someone else's script...[while] wanting to be doing what [the directors] are doing".
At that time, JT was looking for directors for a short film he had written, when his producing partner successfully petitioned Mollner to direct it.JT directed several commercials and music videos over the next decade, as well as writing and directing a series of short independent films, including The Red Room (2008), and Henry John and the Little Bug (2009). In 2011 Mollner directed his father Duke, and his brother Daniel in the short Sugartown, and in 2015 he wrote and directed Flowers in December starring Dee Wallace.
