Carl Kurlander

Carl Kurlander is a writer/producer whose credits include the film "St. Elmo's Fire", television shows including The Louie Show, "Saved by the Bell: The New Class", "Hang Time" and "Malibu, CA", and award winning documentaries including "The Shot Felt 'Round The World" about the Salk polio vaccine, "Burden of Genius" about transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl, and "The Chair", a 10 part Starz TV docuseries following two directors making different movies from the same script. Kurlander's career began when he received the Duke/MCA-Universal Scholar Award which included a ten week internship with then president of production Thom Mount. Kurlander won the scholarship based in part of a short story he wrote in college "St. Elmo's Fire" which he subsequently led to him writing his first movie with director Joel Schumacher. In 2003, Kurlander appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a program about people who changed their lives for moving back to his hometown to teach at the University of P