Ross Klavan

Ross Klavan is a critically acclaimed screenwriter, author, and performer. The movie of his screenplay, Tigerland, starred Colin Farrell, directed by Joel Schumacher and won the Independent Spirit Award. To date, Ross has written screenplays for Intermedia, Miramax, Walden Media and TNT TV. For Paramount, he helped develop Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. His comic novel Schmuck (Greenpoint Press) was called “exuberant” by NPR. Since then, he has published a series of darkly comic crime novellas with Down and Out Books. A public and intense “conversation about writing” with Kurt Vonnegut was both televised and published in 1999 under the title, Like Shaking Hands With God (Seven Stories Press.) He has published several short stories in Zing Magazine and with Pierogi Press. Several of these stories were produced by the BBC. His play How I Met My (Black) Wife (Again) was produced in NYC.

From another life, he performed his own work for Creative Time, Exit Art, Four Walls, CBGB’s, and HERE (in association with the Lincoln Center Theater). He has also participated in the KGB Reading Series, alongside other clubs and theaters in downtown NYC. As a performer, his voice has been heard in dozens of feature films including Alpha House, Sometimes in April, Casino, In and Out, and You Can Count On Me and in numerous TV and radio commercials. Earlier, Ross was a reporter in New York City and London, England for WINS Radio, the RKO Network, NBC (London), LBC (London), and the Gannett Newspapers. He teaches screenwriting and performance in the graduate creative writing program at Wilkes University and is a member of the Actors’ Studio Playwright/Directors Unit. He lives in New York City.

HERE WE GO DOWN (AND THERE IS NO BOTTOM) (Noir Fiction)

Here We Go Down (And There Is No Bottom) is a dark, noir-ish comedy that tells the story of a man who wants to murder his elderly, albeit mad mother. Contemplating the implcations of the murder, he falls in love with nun (seriously), sows chaos across town with his girlfriend, and tries to cope with being hated by his wife. Narrated from the point of view of his drinking buddy, a man who is slowly revealed to be the definition of shady, in a failing bar in a New York City reeling from the recent pandemic plus about 200 years of rough history, Here We Go Down is a tale of plausible absurdities in a world and city where anything can happen. Hilariously written, at its core, the novel is about history’s utter lack of manners, unknowability of things, the temptation that obviously bad ideas can inherently present us with, and a lesson in the importance of never uttering the phrase, “Well, it can’t get any worse than this.”

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Agent: Zeynep Sen