Daniel Knauf

Birth Name:

Daniel Knauf

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Writer, Producer, Director

Earned his bachelor's degree in English at California State University, Los Angeles in 1982
After college, worked as an employee benefits consultant, then a health insurance broker while writing and re-working "Carnivàle," leading to writing TV's "Blind Justice" in 1994, followed by "Wolf Lake" and "Dark Descent․"
Quote: "I didn’t realize I was a TV writer until I was writing TV, and it was like, 'Oh!' With films, you’re writing it, and three years later, it comes out, and you have no connection to it․ With TV, you’re writing stuff in the morning, and in the afternoon, they can actually be shooting․"
Executive producer, consulting producer and screenwriter whose work includes TV's "Spartacus: War of the Damned," "My Own Worst Enemy," "Standoff," "Wolf Lake," "Carnivàle" and more

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