Daniel waters biography
Daniel Waters (screenwriter)
American screenwriter and film director
Daniel Waters (born November 10, 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Beyond Our Control
He is the older brother of director Mark Waters.
Early life
Waters was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in South Bend, Indiana.[1] In high school, Waters wrote a popular column titled "Troubled Waters" for his high school newspaper, where he wrote fictitious stories about his real-life classmates—not unlike the writing that appeared in his screenplay for Heathers.[2] He then wrote, directed and starred alongside Larry Karaszewski in a local sketch comedy titled Beyond Our Control in the early 1980s.[1] Waters moved to Montreal where he graduated from McGill University.
After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, and was the manager of a video store.[1]
Screenwriting credits
Waters came to prominence in 1988 for writing the black comedy Heathers,[2] for w Daniel Waters (screenwriter) - Wikipedia LIVY