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Ann Druyan
Co-writer of the Emmy-Award Winning Series
Ann Druyan is an author, lecturer, and television and motion picture writer/producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS. Ms. Druyan served as Creative Director of the NASA Voyager Interstellar Record Project to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations. These golden phonograph records affixed to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the fastest moving vehicles ever created by the human species, are now beyond the outermost planets of the solar system on their way to interstellar space. They have a projected shelf life of one billion years.
Ms. Druyan is the author or co-author of several books, including A Famous Broken Heart, a novel, and Comet, which was on the New York Times best seller list for two months. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, written with Carl Sagan, was another New York Times best seller. She is also a credited contributor to the best selling books Contact, Pale Blue Dot, The Demon-Haunted World and Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Parade, Discover, and The Washington Post.
She wrote and produced the PBS NOVA episode “Confessions of a Weaponeer” on the life of President Eisenhower’s Science Advisor, George Kistiakowsky of Harvard.
She is co-producer and co-creator of Contact, a Warner Brothers motion picture, based on the story she co-wrote with Carl Sagan. Directed by Bob Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster, Contact was released July 1997.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, The News Hour with Jim Lerher, The Crier Report and scores of other radio and television talk, news, and public affairs programs. Ms. Druyan has lectured widely on topics as diverse as the nuclear arms race, the Voyager interstellar record, human evolution, the scientific search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and pre-Socratic philosophy.
Ms. Druyan is also co-producer with Martin Scorsese, et al and co-writer of the screenplay dramatic feature film “AND THERE WAS LIGHT”, which is based on the true story of Jacques Lusseryan, the blind leader of the French Resistance. It is now in development. She is currently at work on a new television series to be called COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey.
Ms. Druyan is the founder and CEO of COSMOS STUDIOS, producing science based entertainment for all media. In 2000, COSMOS STUDIOS produced “The Best of Cosmos” for PBS and released an updated dvd version of the 13 part COSMOS television series. It funded an historic expedition to the Sahara which resulted in the discovery of a new genus of dinosaur, the second largest ever found. These findings were published in the journal SCIENCE (June 1, 2001). Cosmos Studios’ two hour documentary of the expedition, entitled The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, premiered on the A&E televison network on October 8th, 2002. Random House published the accompanying book. The original COSMOS television series (1980) is currently airing in the U.S. on the Discovery Science channel in prime time, a stunning testament to its enduring appeal.
Ms. Druyan is the author or co-author of several books, including A Famous Broken Heart, a novel, and Comet, which was on the New York Times best seller list for two months. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, written with Carl Sagan, was another New York Times best seller. She is also a credited contributor to the best selling books Contact, Pale Blue Dot, The Demon-Haunted World and Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Parade, Discover, and The Washington Post.
She wrote and produced the PBS NOVA episode “Confessions of a Weaponeer” on the life of President Eisenhower’s Science Advisor, George Kistiakowsky of Harvard.
She is co-producer and co-creator of Contact, a Warner Brothers motion picture, based on the story she co-wrote with Carl Sagan. Directed by Bob Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster, Contact was released July 1997.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, The News Hour with Jim Lerher, The Crier Report and scores of other radio and television talk, news, and public affairs programs. Ms. Druyan has lectured widely on topics as diverse as the nuclear arms race, the Voyager interstellar record, human evolution, the scientific search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and pre-Socratic philosophy.
Ms. Druyan is also co-producer with Martin Scorsese, et al and co-writer of the screenplay dramatic feature film “AND THERE WAS LIGHT”, which is based on the true story of Jacques Lusseryan, the blind leader of the French Resistance. It is now in development. She is currently at work on a new television series to be called COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey.
Ms. Druyan is the founder and CEO of COSMOS STUDIOS, producing science based entertainment for all media. In 2000, COSMOS STUDIOS produced “The Best of Cosmos” for PBS and released an updated dvd version of the 13 part COSMOS television series. It funded an historic expedition to the Sahara which resulted in the discovery of a new genus of dinosaur, the second largest ever found. These findings were published in the journal SCIENCE (June 1, 2001). Cosmos Studios’ two hour documentary of the expedition, entitled The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, premiered on the A&E televison network on October 8th, 2002. Random House published the accompanying book. The original COSMOS television series (1980) is currently airing in the U.S. on the Discovery Science channel in prime time, a stunning testament to its enduring appeal.
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