전기
Dan Klores is an award-winning filmmaker and playwright who has created six films over the past 13 years, with four premiering at the Sundance Film Festival: The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003), Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005), and most recently, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (2010). He has earned significant acclaim, including the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary for Crazy Love (2007) and the Peabody Award for his film Black Magic (2008). Both Crazy Love and the audio soundtrack from Black Magic were inducted into the Library of Congress.
Klores debuted as a playwright in 2007 with Myrtle Beach, which was staged at The Duke. In 2010, he premiered Little Doc, featuring Adam Driver, at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. The following year, The Wood, directed by David Bar Katz, portrayed the life and career of late newspaper columnist Mike McAlary and his journey to winning a Pulitzer Prize.
He is the author of the book Roundball Culture: South Carolina Basketball (1980) and has contributed numerous articles, columns, essays, and features to publications including the New York Times, New York Daily News, Esquire, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Grantland.com, Huffington Post, and Southern Exposure.
Raised in Brooklyn, Klores now lives in Manhattan with his wife Abbe and their three sons, Jake, Sam, and Luke.