Alan Poul is a veteran of both motion pictures and television. Over his nineteen-year career, he has received an Emmy® Award , a Golden Globe, three Emmy® nominations, three GLAAD Awards and two Peabody Awards. In December 2001 he was presented with PowerUP's first annual Premiere Award.

He is currently Executive Producer of HBO's Six Feet Under, recipient of 6 Emmy® Awards in 2002. Six Feet Under has also won the Golden Globe® for Drama Series, SAG Award for Dramatic Ensemble (twice) and the Peabody Award. Poul has directed several episodes of the show as well, and in 2003 was nominated for both a directing Emmy® and a DGA award for his episode, "Nobody Sleeps."

Prominent in Poul's other TV work has been his close collaboration with author Armistead Maupin, resulting in three miniseries based on Maupin's Tales of the City books, each of which has been nominated for an Emmy® award.

In feature films, Poul most recently produced the Fox Searchlight film Woman on Top. In the theater, Poul produced the Los Angeles debut of Lypsinka in I could Go on Lip-Synching!, which ran for 101 performances. Previously, his work as a lyricist included New Tunes at the Manhattan Theater Club, Ladies in Waiting at the Civic Theater in Chicago, ABC's The Dollmaker with Jane Fonda, and Vagabond Stars at the Berkshire Theater Festival.

He has served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD and of Los Angeles' Outfest, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Variety, Film Comment, and Egg Magazine.