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Was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." The script was sent to Oliver Stone, who read it and decided to make it. A huge fan of Citizen Kane and Orson Welles, Logan lobbied hard for the job of writing "RKO 281," doing six months' worth of research before meeting with Ridley Scott to ask for the job.

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Met Brent Spiner (Lt. Com. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation) during one of Mr. Spiner's performances of "1776" on Broadway and they subsequently became friends.

Brent Spiner approached Star Trek's head honcho, Rick Berman, about having John Logan pen the tenth Star Trek movie. He agreed.

Says his favorite original series episode is "Balance of Terror", which introduced the Romulans to the audience, and has thus made the tenth Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), about the Romulans.

Attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Graduated in 1983.

His play, "Never the Sinner," at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work.

He was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work for "Hauptmann" at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

His play, "Hauptmann," awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Play Production at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Music from a Locked Room" at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

His play, "Music from a Locked Room" at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.

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