Alan Ball (screenwriter)
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Alan Ball in 2008
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| Born |
May 13, 1957 Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | University of Georgia, Florida State University |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, director, producer |
| Notable work |
American Beauty (1999) Six Feet Under (2001–2005) True Blood (2008–2014) Banshee (2013–2016) |
| Television | Grace Under Fire, Cybill |
| Partner(s) | Peter Macdissi |
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theatre.
He is most known for writing American Beauty and for creating Six Feet Under and True Blood, work which earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.
Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. His older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car accident when Ball was 13; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta, and went on to attend the University of Georgia and Florida State University, from which he graduated in 1980 with a degree in theater arts. After college, he began work as a playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida.
Ball broke into television as a writer and story editor on the situation comedies Grace Under Fire and Cybill.
Ball has written two films, American Beauty (1999) and Towelhead (2007), the latter of which he also produced and directed. He is also the creator, writer and executive producer of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood. He was showrunner for True Blood for its first five seasons.
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