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Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball wrote the screenplay for American Beauty, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Alan E. Ball cut his writing teeth as a playwright before shaking our screens with the Oscar-winning indie powerhouse American Beauty and the multiple Emmy-nominated TV series Six Feet Under and True Blood.
Jun 3, 2021 · A playwright with a knack for comedy, Ball had seen his stock shoot up with the joint critical and commercial success of 1999’s American Beauty, for which he wrote the screenplay. “All of a...
I was pursuing a career as a playwright. I never occurred to me I'd actually be working in Hollywood." His coworkers at Adweek did not know much about his dreams of a writing career, but one night a group from the office went to see his play, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
Jan 21, 2005 · Acclaimed screenwriter and producer Alan Ball, a Georgia native, has won many awards during his successful career in television and film. Between 1999 and 2003 Ball received an Oscar, a Peabody , two Golden Globes, and six Emmys for his work.
Former playwright-turned-filmmaker Alan Ball left behind the rather anonymous and distressing world of sitcom writing to make his breakthrough as the screenwriter of the Academy...
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Biography for Alan Ball the Playwright including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.
