Ken Kwapis (born August 17, 1957, Belleville, Illinois) is an American film and television director and scriptwriter. Kwapis studied film first at Northwestern University and then on the graduate level at USC School of Cinema-Television. He helped define the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s.
[>>]Source: WikipediaKen Kwapis (born August 17, 1957, Belleville, Illinois) is an American film and television director and scriptwriter. Kwapis studied film first at Northwestern University and then on the graduate level at USC School of Cinema-Television. He helped define the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s.
Career
Kwapis won the Student Academy Award in Dramatic Achievement for his USC thesis film For Heaven's Sake, an adaptation of Mozart's one-act comic opera Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario).
Kwapis has moved between the worlds of feature filmmaking and television directing. He most recently directed the smash hit He's Just Not That Into You, an adaptation of Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's non-fiction bestseller, released 6 February 2009. The romantic dramedy stars Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Connolly, Jennifer Connelly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, and Justin Long. Previously, Kwapis directed the critically acclaimed drama The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, adapted from Ann Brashares' young adult novel, starring Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel.
Kwapis' other feature film credits include the romantic comedies The Beautician and the Beast, starring Fran Drescher, and He Said, She Said, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. He Said, She Said, was conceived and co-directed with Kwapis' wife Marisa Silver. His other films include Dunston Checks In, Vibes, and Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird.
For television, Kwapis helped launch several innovative comedies during the 1990s and 2000s. He directed the pilot and many subsequent episodes of NBC's Emmy Award-winning series The Office. Kwapis has earned Emmy nominations for his work on The Office, as well as a producer-director of FOX's Malcolm in the Middle. He also directed the pilots for the influential HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, and the Emmy Award-winning The Bernie Mac Show. In addition, he has directed episodes of the well-regarded comedies, Freaks and Geeks and Bakersfield P.D.
Sexual Life marked Kwapis' first effort as a writer-director. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, Sexual Life premiered to positive reviews at the Los Angeles Film Festival and aired on Showtime in 2005.
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