Dan Gordon is the screenwriter of such movies as The Hurricane (Denzel Washington), Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner), Murder in the First (Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman), and Passenger 57 (Wesley Snipes), and was the head writer on the Michael Landon television series, Highway to Heaven. Let There Be Light is Gordon's seventeenth feature length film, and ninth novel. He has five produced plays, which have appeared Off and On Broadway and in the West End of London, including Irena's Vow, nominated for Best Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle Awards. He is also cofounder of the Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center at Liberty University.