Age: 54
male
Adam Horowitz is the writer of the television shows Felicity, Black Sash, One Tree Hill, Popular, Fantasy Island, Birds of Prey, Life As We Know It, and Lost. Horowitz attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he met his future collaborator, Edward Kitsis. Horowitz was a very prolific writer and reporter for the Daily Cardinal student newspaper. After graduating, Kitsis and Horowitz traveled together to Los Angeles, and worked together on Fantasy Island, Felicity, and Popular, before joining the Lost team halfway through the first season. Horowitz and the Lost writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons. He was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony for his work on the second and third seasons, at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost and at the February 2010 ceremony for the fifth season. He also wrote Confessions of an American Bride, a made for television movie. Horowitz worked as a Writer on the Universal project Ouija Board and co-wrote Tron: Legacy. He is married to Erin Barrett Horowitz and they have two children.
The story centers on the rivalry between ENCOM and Dillinger Systems—now headed by Julian Dillinger, grandson of Ed Dillinger and cousin of Edward Dillinger Jr.—as both corporations compete to bring digital entities into the physical world. Julian dispatches a highly advanced program named Ares from the digital realm into reality, marking humanity’s first contact with artificial intelligence originating from the Grid. Meanwhile, Tamara Flynn, adopted daughter of Sam Flynn and Quorra, and adopted granddaughter of Kevin Flynn, plans to rescue Tron from the Sea of Simulation and bring her adopted grandfather back to life with the help of Andy Bradley, son of Alan Bradley, as the ascension begins after the legacy ends.
