| Kim Krizan | |
|---|---|
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Notable works | Before Sunrise, Before Sunset |
Kim Krizan is an American writer most well known for her work on Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and a Writers Guild Award.[1]
Krizan was featured in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and Waking Life (2001). She is also known for her part in Dazed and Confused (1993) in which she plays a high school teacher who informs her students that the 1976 Bicentennial celebrates "a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males who didn't want to pay their taxes."
Krizan recently wrote the "2061" comic series that was published in Zombie Tales #1, 9, and 11 by Boom! Studios, and is to be collected into a stand-alone graphic novel in 2009.
In 2007, Krizan was selected as spokesperson for the screenwriting software Final Draft. Then in the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, she along with Chip Mosher, Michael Alan Nelson, Gary Philips and Mark Waid participated in "Big! Bold! BOOM!: BOOM! Studios Talks Comics," discussion, which was moderated by Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher.
Krizan currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to write while also teaching writing courses in and around Los Angeles, most notably at UCLA.
References
- ^ "This Year's Oscar Nominees". The New York Times. January 26, 2005. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5DC163BF935A15752C0A9639C8B63. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
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