Ivan Reitman

Rajiv Joseph is currently making quite an impression in Hollywood with his screenplay "Draft Day," written with Scott Rothman. The football comedy is ranked No. 1 on this year's Black List, the movie industry's informal ranking of the most popular unproduced screenplays.

Joseph might be a fresh face in Hollywood, but he has already made a name for himself in the theater world, where his plays have garnered praise for their intelligence, topicality and sense of humor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist two years ago for "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which ran at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and later at the Mark Taper Forum before transferring to...