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Producer Alan Poul is a veteran of both motion pictures and television. Over his twenty -year career, he has received an Emmy Award®, a Golden Globe®, A Producer's Guild Award, four GLAAD Awards and three Peabody Awards. In December 2001, he was presented with PowerUP's first annual Premiere Award. In 2003 he received the ACLU Foundation's Pride Partnership Award. He is currently Executive Producer of HBO's Six Feet Under, recipient of 6 Emmy Awards® in 2002. Six Feet Under has also won the Golden Globe® for Drama Series, the SAG Award for Dramatic Ensemble (twice), the Golden Nymph for best drama at The Monte Carlo International Television Festival, and the Peabody Award. Poul has directed several episodes of the show as well, and in 2003 was nominated for both a directing Emmy® and a DGA award for his episode, "Nobody Sleeps." He also recently directed an episode of HBO's lavish upcoming series, Rome, set to premiere in September 2005.
Prominent in Poul's other TV work has been his close collaboration with author Armistead Maupin, resulting in three miniseries based on Maupin's Tales of the City books (Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City), each of which has been nominated for an Emmy® award. He also produced the beloved short-lived My So-Called Life for ABC, the Peabody Award-winning Rock the Vote Special (1992), and the Emmy®-winning PBS documentary series The Pacific Century (1990).
In feature films, Poul most recently produced the Fox Searchlight film Woman on Top (2000), directed by Fina Torres and starring Penelope Cruz. Other features he has produced include Skip Woods' debut film Thursday (1998), Scott Winant's Til There was You (1995), Monique Gardenberg's The Interview (Jenipapo) (1996), and the Clive Barker/Bernard Rose horror classic Candyman (1992). As associate producer, he worked on Paul Schrader's Mishima (1985) and Light of Day (1987), and Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1988).
In the theater, Poul produced the Los Angeles debut of Lypsinka in I could Go on Lip-Synching!, which ran for 101 performances. Previously, his work as a lyricist included New Tunes at the Manhattan Theater Club, Ladies in Waiting at the Civic Theater in
Chicago, ABC's The Dollmaker with Jane Fonda, and Vagabond Stars at the Berkshire Theater Festival.
He has served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD and of Los Angeles' Outfest, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Variety, Film Comment, and Egg Magazine.
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Film
- Woman on Top (2000)
- Thursday (1998)
- Los Locos (1997)
- Til There Was You (1997)
- Jenipapo (1996)
- Candyman (1992)
- Black Rain (1989)
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TV
- Six Feet Under (2001/2002)
- Further Tales of the City (2001)
- More Tales of the City (1998)
- My So Called Life (1994)
- Inside Out I, II, III, IV (1992)
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