Daniel Waters was born november 10, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in South Bend, Indiana. In high school, Waters wrote a popular column called "Troubled Waters" for his high school newspaper, where he wrote fictitious stories about his real-life classmates—not unlike the writing that appeared in his Heathers screenplay. He then wrote, directed and starred alongside Larry Karaszewski in a local sketch comedy called Beyond Our Control, in the early 1980s. Waters then moved to Montreal where he graduated from McGill University. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, and was the manager of a video store.

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