Kyle Killen
Kyle Killen | |
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 Kyle Killen at 2011 Comic-Con | |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, producer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Known for | Lone Star Awake |
Kyle Killen is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed television series Lone Star, Awake and more recently Mind Games.
Early life and education
Killen was born in Chicago and moved with his family to Burleson, Texas when he was three.[1] He is a graduate of the film school at the University of Southern California.[2]
Career
Killen is the creator of the short-lived series Lone Star and Awake. He recently created the drama series Mind Games for ABC. He also wrote the feature film The Beaver, filmed in 2009 and released in 2011. It was directed by Jodie Foster and starred Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson. A second film written by Killen, 2013's Scenic Route, was directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz. His directorial debut is Mind Games's season finale As God Is My Witness.
Personal life
Until starting work on Awake, Killen had been based in Austin, Texas. After graduating from USC and leaving Los Angeles, he wrote short fiction and first-person journalism. While working at what he called "real jobs" (computer support, construction), Killen found it hard to give up screenplay-writing. In a last-ditch effort, he returned to L.A., dressed up as a courier and dropped copies of a script at every agency he could find. Six months later, one of those agents called. "That script probably wasn't deserving of getting produced," he told the trade publication Variety in a 2011 "10 TV Scribes to Watch" feature, "but it got me a teeny, tiny toe in the door."[3] Killen told the Austin American-Statesman in 2010 that "I quit, but I never really quit. I took a lot of horrible, crazy jobs, but I always ended up writing about them or writing things that came out of them."[4] Killen is married to an ER doctor;[5] the couple have three children.[6]
References
- ^ Dale Roe, "'Lone Star' creator Kyle Killen calls Austin home," Austin American-Statesman, September 24, 2010.
- ^ Rob Owen, "Kyle Killen: Sought-after scribe feels like outsider. 10 TV Scribes to Watch," Variety, Jun 14, 2011.
- ^ Owen, "Kyle Killen," June 14, 2011.
- ^ Dale Roe, "'Lone Star' Creator," Austin American-Statesman, September 24, 2010.
- ^ Philiana Ng, "'Awake' Creator Revisits Complexities of Dual Realities and 'Lone Star' Woes (Q&A)," Hollywood Reporter, February 28, 2012.
- ^ Roe, "'Lone Star Scribe," September 24, 2010.