Josh Klausner

Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).

Early life
Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.

Career
He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994. He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.

He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010). In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds.

Personal life
He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them. The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".

Filmography
Production assistant
 * Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Second unit director
 * Kingpin (1996)
 * There's Something About Mary (1998)
 * Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
 * Shallow Hal (2001)