Out screenwriter, director, actor and producer Alan Ball is best known for creating the dark film American Beauty and dramas Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball is an Atlanta-native, born May 13, 1957. After college—he graduated from Florida State University School of Theatre in 1980—he began work as a playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida.
Alan Ball on True Blood
Alan Ball says of his True Blood series: "I really don't look at the vampire as a metaphor for gays," he tells LA Times. "For me, part of the fun of this whole series is that it's about vampires, so it’s not that serious," he says. "However," he continues, "[the vampires] do work as a metaphor for gays... for anyone that's misunderstood."
Alan Ball on Death
IMDB quotes Ball as saying: "When I was 13 years old, I was in a car accident with my sister, who was driving the car. It was her 22nd birthday, and she died. She died in front of me. She died all over me. Death stuck its big old ugly face in my face and my life changed. That's why death seems to be a theme that appears in all my stuff."
Alan Ball on True Blood
Alan Ball says of his True Blood series: "I really don't look at the vampire as a metaphor for gays," he tells LA Times. "For me, part of the fun of this whole series is that it's about vampires, so it’s not that serious," he says. "However," he continues, "[the vampires] do work as a metaphor for gays... for anyone that's misunderstood."
Alan Ball on Death
IMDB quotes Ball as saying: "When I was 13 years old, I was in a car accident with my sister, who was driving the car. It was her 22nd birthday, and she died. She died in front of me. She died all over me. Death stuck its big old ugly face in my face and my life changed. That's why death seems to be a theme that appears in all my stuff."
