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J. T. Allen spent seven years working below the line on films such as The Blues Brothers, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. In 1984, he relocated to Paris, where he wrote a screenplay and sent it to a friend in Hollywood, resulting in its sale. After moving to Los Angeles, he penned multiple drafts of The Lion King and wrote The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston. His television work includes TNT's Geronimo (featuring Joseph Runningfox and August Schellenberg), The Good Old Boys (with Sissy Spacek, Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, and Tommy Lee Jones), FX's Redemption (starring Jamie Foxx and Lynn Whitfield), and CBS's Death in Paradise (featuring Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, and William Devane). He co-wrote the indie film William alongside director Tim Disney, starring Will Brittain, Maria Dizzia, and Waleed Zuaiter. His dark comedy script, Curveball, about the Iraqi fabricator pivotal to starting the Iraq War, was adapted by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo into the off-Broadway musical Baghdaddy, a New York Times Critics Pick. Additionally, Mr. Allen has authored two YA novels: Daisy and the Pirates and Daisy in Exile.
