Alan Ball

Alan E. Ball adalah seorang penulis, sutradara, aktor dan produser Amerika untuk film, teater dan televisi. Ia terkenal karena menulis American Beauty dan True Blood serta menciptakan Six Feet Under, karya yang membuatnya mendapatkan Academy Award, Emmy, dan penghargaan dari Writers, Director, dan Producers Guilds. Ball lahir di Marietta, Georgia, dari pasangan Frank dan Mary Ball, seorang inspektur pesawat dan ibu rumah tangga. Kakak perempuannya, Mary Ann, tewas dalam kecelakaan mobil ketika Ball berusia 13 tahun; dia berada di kursi penumpang saat itu. Ia bersekolah di sekolah menengah atas di Marietta, dan melanjutkan kuliah di Universitas Georgia dan Universitas Negeri Florida, dan lulus pada tahun 1980 dengan gelar di bidang seni teater. Setelah lulus kuliah, ia mulai bekerja sebagai penulis naskah drama di General Nonsense Theatre Company di Sarasota, Florida. Ball masuk ke televisi sebagai penulis dan editor cerita di komedi situasi Grace Under Fire dan Cybill. Ball telah menulis dua film, American Beauty (1999) dan Towelhead (2007), yang terakhir juga ia produksi dan sutradarai. Ia juga pencipta, penulis, dan produser eksekutif serial drama HBO Six Feet Under dan True Blood. Dia adalah seorang showrunner untuk True Blood selama lima musim pertamanya. Pada tahun 2010 Ball mulai mengerjakan adaptasi televisi dari novel kriminal noir The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death karya Charlie Huston, yang diberi judul All Signs of Death. Pada bulan Desember 2010, setelah beberapa bulan melakukan praproduksi, HBO membatalkan produksi All Signs of Death. Ia juga merupakan salah satu produser eksekutif serial Cinemax Banshee. Pada bulan Januari 2015, diumumkan bahwa drama musikal periode Ball, Virtuoso, telah dipesan pilotnya oleh HBO. Uji coba ini akan diproduksi secara eksekutif oleh Elton John. Aktor yang dikonfirmasi untuk membintangi acara tersebut termasuk Peter Macdissi, Iva Babic, Francois Civil, Lindsay Farris, Nico Mirallegro, dan Alex Lawther. Atas karyanya di televisi dan film, Ball telah menerima pujian kritis dan berbagai penghargaan serta nominasi, termasuk Academy Award, Emmy dan Golden Globe, serta penghargaan dari Penulis, Sutradara, dan Persekutuan Produser.

Alan E. Ball is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television. He is particularly notable for writing American Beauty and True Blood and for creating Six Feet Under, 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. In 2010 Ball began work on a television adaptation of the crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston, to be titled All Signs of Death. In December 2010, after several months of pre-production, HBO cancelled production on All Signs of Death. He is also one of the executive producers of the Cinemax series Banshee. In January 2015, it was announced that Ball's period musical drama Virtuoso had had a pilot ordered by HBO. The pilot will be executively produced by Elton John. Confirmed actors to be starring in the show include Peter Macdissi, Iva Babic, Francois Civil, Lindsay Farris, Nico Mirallegro and Alex Lawther. For his work in television and film, Ball has received critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, an Emmy a Golden Globe, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.