Alan Poul

Alan Mark Poul (born May 1, 1954) is an American film and television producer and director.

Career
Poul served as executive producer for the HBO original series, Six Feet Under, on which he made his directing debut. He directed four episodes of the series from seasons two through five.

He later directed the pilot for CBS' series Swingtown, of which he directed a total of four episodes. He also directed the 2010 CBS Films romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan, originally titled Plan B.

He signed a new deal with HBO in April 2011. He was an executive producer of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom. He directed seven episodes of the show, including the series finale.

Poul was an executive producer on Tokyo Vice and directed the final episode of its first season, Yoshino. He is fluent in Japanese.

Poul has been nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys, a Directors Guild of America award, and won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in Outstanding Historical Program for The Pacific Century.

Credits
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Producer

 * Film
 * Black Rain (1989)
 * Candyman (1992)
 * Inside Out (1992)
 * 'Til There Was You (1997)
 * Woman on Top (2000)
 * Television
 * Tales of the City (1993)
 * My So-Called Life (1994–1995)
 * More Tales of the City (1998)
 * Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
 * Further Tales of the City (2001)
 * Swingtown (2008)
 * Westworld (2016) (consulting producer)
 * Perception
 * Good Christian Bitches
 * The Eddy
 * Tales of the City (2019)
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Television director

 * Six Feet Under (2001) 4 episodes:
 * episode 2.10 "The Secret" (2002)
 * episode 3.04 "Nobody Sleeps" (2003)
 * episode 4.05 "That's My Dog" (2004)
 * episode 5.04 "Time Flies" (2005)
 * Rome (2005), 2 episodes:
 * episode 1.06 "Egeria" (2005)
 * episode 2.03 "These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero" (2007)
 * Big Love (2006) 2 episodes:
 * episode 1.11 "Where There's a Will (Big Love)" (2006)
 * episode 2.03 "Reunion" (2007)
 * Swingtown (2008) 4 episodes:
 * episode 1.01 "Pilot" (2008)
 * episode 1.02 "Love Will Find a Way" (2008)
 * episode 1.08 "Puzzlerama" (2008)
 * episode 1.13 "Take It To The Limit" (2008)
 * The Newsroom (2012–13), 7 episodes:
 * episode 1.04 "I'll Try to Fix You" (2012)
 * episode 1.09 "The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate" (2012)
 * episode 2.01 "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers" (2013)
 * episode 2.05 "News Night with Will McAvoy" (2013)
 * episode 2.09 "Election Night, Part II" (2013)
 * episode 3.03 "Main Justice" (2014)
 * episode 3.06 "What Kind of Day Has It Been" (2014)
 * Tales of the City (2019), 3 episodes:
 * episode 1 "Coming Home"
 * episode 2 "She Messy"
 * episode 8 "Days of Small Surrenders"


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Theatre
"Vagabond Stars" 1978 (lyricist) Pre-Broadway: Berkshire Theatre Festival. Starring: Lewis Stadlen, Marilyn Sokol, Robert M. Rosen aka Robert Ozn, Paul Kreppel