Howard Korder

Birth Name:

Howard Korder

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Writer, Producer, Actor, Script department

Earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination for "Boy's Life․"
Won an AFI Award in 2011 for "Boardwalk Empire," along with Martin Scorsese, Timothy Van Patten and Terence Winter
Won a Writers Guild of America Award for New Series in 2011, along with others involved in "Boardwalk Empire․"
Started writing plays because he realized he would never be a rock musician, as he never knew how to play an instrument, but he wanted to channel that sort of energy and excitement to an audience
Quote: "I'm wary to make any thematic statement about my own work․ But I guess I'm interested in the gap between what we want and what we wind up getting․"
Quote: "Writers could trap me in my chair, and I wanted to do that․ I wanted to make others feel, as my favorite writers made me feel, to show something about how life exists․"
Authored the 1988 coming-of-age play "Boy's Life․"
In addition to his screenplays for film and television, he wrote the play "Search and Destroy" which was adapted into a film in 1995
Chekhov is his favorite playwright because of the way he blends the comic with the unbearably sad
Draws influence from such playwrights as John Webster, Harold Pinter and David Mamet

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