Alan Ball

Alan Ball is a television producer and writer best known for creating the television programs Six Feet Under and True Blood for HBO. For True Blood he has directed two episodes and had a hand in the development of the scripts for each episode of the series. As a writer, he worked on ten episodes of the series between seasons 1-5.

As a director

 * 1) True Blood: Strange Love
 * 2) True Blood: You'll Be the Death of Me

As a writer

 * 1) True Blood: Strange Love
 * 2) True Blood: The First Taste
 * 3) True Blood: Shake and Fingerpop
 * 4) True Blood: Frenzy
 * 5) True Blood: I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
 * 6) True Blood: Evil Is Going On
 * 7) True Blood: If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?
 * 8) True Blood: Spellbound
 * 9) True Blood: Hopeless
 * 10) True Blood: Save Yourself

Notes & Trivia

 * In the Spring of 2012, Alan Ball announced that season five would be his final season on True Blood. He received a standing ovation for his work on the program at the True Blood panel at the 2012 San Diego Comic-con.
 * Following his work on True Blood, Alan Ball worked as an executive producer on episodes of the crime drama series Banshee.