He is best known for providing the voice for Jimmy Hopkins, the main playable character in the 2006 video game Bully, for which he was nominated for a 2006 Spike VGA Award for Best Performance by a Human Male and a 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance - Male.
[2] He attended college at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he studied history and political science.
Rosenthal has appeared in television commercials and radio voice-overs, along with television series including Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as the films Liberty Heights, Finding Forrester, and Wirey Spindell.
While at St. Thomas, Rosenthal studied piano with concert pianist Leslie Singer and music theory with composer Scott Eyerly (composer of the Opera house of Seven Gables, as well as a faculty member at The Juilliard School).
In high school Rosenthal continued his piano studies privately with jazz pianist Paul Salamone.
While earning a History degree at Rutgers University, Rosenthal attended a semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied guitar privately with John Marasco (Eartha Kitt, Al Martino) and John Thomas (Kenny Drew, Tony Scott, Roy Haynes) as well as music theory with Jim Stinnett (bass instructor for Mike Gordon of Phish) While in college he also studied guitar privately with Karl Cochran (Ace Frehley, Joe Lynn Turner.)