Ross Klavan

Ross Klavan’s critically acclaimed screenplay for the film Tigerland was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and starred Colin Farrell, directed by Joel Schumacher. He’s also written screenplays for Intermedia, Miramax, Walden Media and TNT TV. For Paramount he helped develop Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. Klavan’s comic novel Schmuck (Greenpoint Press) was called “exuberant” by NPR reviewer Maureen Corrigan, and he’s published a series of darkly comic crime novellas with Down and Out Books. A public and intense “conversation about writing” with Kurt Vonnegut was both televised and published in 1999 as “Like Shaking Hands With God” (Seven Stories Press.) Other works of fiction include short stories appearing in Zing Magazine, Pierogi Press, and several produced by the BBC. From another life, he performed his own work for Creative Time, Exit Art, Four Walls, CBGB’s, and HERE (in association with the Lincoln Center Theater). Earlier, he was a news reporter in the US and Europe.