Born Aveley, Essex, England Educated Palmer's School, University of Southampton (BA Hons Electronics) University of Bristol Postgraduate degree in drama.
Wurman's score for Temple Grandin (2010) is astonishing and truly original - both cosmic and intimate, full of boundless energy, yet movingly simple. An amazing achievement. This music really finds and gives voice to the true spirit of the movie
[on The Day After (1983)] "I know that Nicholas Meyer had tremendous problems with the censors, with everybody. [But] There's this crane shot - it's like a shot in Gone with the Wind (1939). I thought, 'This is obscene. You shouldn't be making [homages] in a subject like this.' This is why I decided I would go ahead and make 'Threads.' I was so angry at the blown opportunity."