Alan Ball earned his BA at the Florida State University School of Theatre. One of his first written works was a play entitled "Five women wearing the same dress"
He is outspokenly gay and his work often includes gay issues or characters such as "David Fisher" in A Sete Palmos (2001); "Lafayette Reynolds" in True Blood (2008); and "Frank Bledsoe" and "Wally" in Tio Frank (2020).
On his early TV career: "The shows I were on were all about serving the
star's egos. I had this free-floating rage... It's factory work. I had
no emotional connection with what I was writing."
