| Josh Klausner | |
| Education: | Princeton University |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter |
| Spouse: | Hyatt Bass |
| Children: | 2 sons |
| Relatives: | Sid Bass (father-in-law) Anne Hendricks Bass (mother-in-law) |
Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).
Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] [2] After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.[3]
He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.[4] He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.[5]
He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010).[5] In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds.[6]
He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.[7] The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".[8]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The 4th Floor | |||
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | |||
| 2010 | Date Night | |||
| Shrek Forever After | ||||
| 2018 | Wanderland |
Production assistant
Second unit director