艾伦·鲍尔（Alan E. Ball）是美国电影、戏剧和电视作家、导演、演员和制片人。

他以撰写《美国丽人》和《真爱如血》以及创作《六英尺之下》而闻名，这些作品为他赢得了奥斯卡奖、艾美奖以及编剧、导演和制片人协会的奖项。

鲍尔出生于佐治亚州玛丽埃塔，父亲是弗兰克和玛丽·鲍尔，他们是一名飞机检查员和家庭主妇。他的姐姐玛丽安在鲍尔 13 岁时死于车祸;当时他坐在副驾驶座上。他在玛丽埃塔上高中，然后就读于佐治亚大学和佛罗里达州立大学，并于 1980 年毕业，获得戏剧艺术学位。大学毕业后，他开始在佛罗里达州萨拉索塔的General Nonsense Theater Company担任剧作家。

鲍尔以情景喜剧《火下的格蕾丝》和《赛比尔》的编剧和故事编辑的身份闯入电视界。鲍尔编剧了两部电影，《美国丽人》（1999年）和《毛巾头》（2007年），后者也是他制作和导演的。他还是HBO电视剧《六英尺之下》和《真爱如血》的创作者、编剧和执行制片人。他是《真爱如血》前五季的节目主管。2010年，鲍尔开始根据查理·休斯顿（Charlie Huston）的黑色犯罪小说《消除所有死亡迹象的神秘艺术》（The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death）改编电视剧，名为《所有死亡迹象》。2010 年 12 月，经过几个月的前期制作，HBO 取消了《死亡迹象》的制作。他也是Cinemax系列《女妖》的执行制片人之一。2015 年 1 月，宣布 Ball 的年代音乐剧 Virtuoso 已获得 HBO 的试播订单。该试播片将由埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）执行制作。已确认出演该剧的演员包括彼得·麦克迪西、伊娃·巴比奇、弗朗索瓦·民事、林赛·法里斯、尼科·米拉莱格罗和亚历克斯·劳瑟。

由于他在电视和电影方面的工作，鲍尔获得了评论界的赞誉和无数奖项和提名，包括奥斯卡奖、艾美奖、金球奖以及编剧、导演和制片人协会的奖项。

Alan E. Ball is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television.

He is particularly notable for writing American Beauty and True Blood and for creating Six Feet Under, work which earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.

Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. His older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car accident when Ball was 13; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta, and went on to attend the University of Georgia and Florida State University, from which he graduated in 1980 with a degree in theater arts. After college, he began work as a playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida.

Ball broke into television as a writer and story editor on the situation comedies Grace Under Fire and Cybill. Ball has written two films, American Beauty (1999) and Towelhead (2007), the latter of which he also produced and directed. He is also the creator, writer and executive producer of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood. He was showrunner for True Blood for its first five seasons. In 2010 Ball began work on a television adaptation of the crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston, to be titled All Signs of Death. In December 2010, after several months of pre-production, HBO cancelled production on All Signs of Death. He is also one of the executive producers of the Cinemax series Banshee. In January 2015, it was announced that Ball's period musical drama Virtuoso had had a pilot ordered by HBO. The pilot will be executively produced by Elton John. Confirmed actors to be starring in the show include Peter Macdissi, Iva Babic, Francois Civil, Lindsay Farris, Nico Mirallegro and Alex Lawther.

For his work in television and film, Ball has received critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, an Emmy a Golden Globe, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.