HBO knows how to have huge hits when it comes to making a tv series come alive. Of course we always know about the people in front of the camera but what about the ones behind?? LA Weekly was able to get some background information on Alexander Woo.
Alexander Woo is a writer-producer for the show. Before True Blood he was a staff writer for the Fox drama Wonderfalls, and in fact when he graduated from Yale he wanted to be a playwrite. But he is okay working in television.
His past plays that he has worked on include: Debunked in 2004, Forbidden City Blues in 1999 and In the Sherman Family Wax Museum in 1999. He hasn’t worked on plays ever since 2004 and he is really okay with that.
His thought on television wasn’t always good in fact this is what he said about what he thought television was at first.
“I was a playwright. I had in my head that TV was the ‘idiot box’.”
That thought soon would change when he started to work in TV in 2003.
“Commercial theater has moved more and more toward ‘museum theater’ – finding the most famous play you can by the most famous playwright you can, by the most famous actors you can. TV still feels like a writer’s medium.”
That seems to be very true. This is what he had to say about working on set.
“I’m the writer on the set – that would be unusual in film. The cast and the directors and the production staff all turn to you [the writer], just like in theater, because you know where the story has been and where it’s going.”
That is very interesting and true. You don’t hear a lot about when the writer is right there but I can see how this could help the actor and the director for shooting a scene. He also had this to say about staying in TV for right now.
Just like every fan out there we couldn’t be happier to be having Alexander writing for the show. Without him and many other people we wouldn’t have the show we have come to love.
Source: LA Weekly – “Alexander Woo, a Playwright Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ‘Idiot Box’”
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