24 Facts About Mitchell Kriegman

Mitchell Kriegman was born on June 4,1952 and is an American television writer, director, producer, consultant, story editor, author, composer and actor.

Mitchell Kriegman is the creator of Clarissa Explains It All for Nickelodeon, Bear in the Big Blue House and The Book of Pooh for Disney Channel and It's a Big Big World for PBS.

Mitchell Kriegman attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, earning a BA in literature in 1974.

Mitchell Kriegman began his career as a writer, video-artist and performance-artist, under the pseudonym Marshall Klugman.

Mitchell Kriegman wrote and acted in Operation X segments for the PBS Series Alive from Off Center, which have been featured in the Walker Art Center and The Paley Center exhibits.

Mitchell Kriegman joined Saturday Night Live in 1980, as a performer, writer and filmmaker.

Mitchell Kriegman appeared in the sketches "Blame The Kids" and "Virgin Search".

Mitchell Kriegman was a contributor to Michael O'Donoghue's Mr Mike's Mondo Video, which included Kriegman's shorts, "Cleavage" and "This is a Man in a Dog Suit".

Mouseterpiece Theater, hosted by George Plimpton, was directed by Mitchell Kriegman and co-written with Robert Cunniff for The Disney Channel; the show was a spoof on Masterpiece Theatre, but instead of presenting serious works in film, Plimpton would introduce Disney cartoons.

Mitchell Kriegman produced The Sweet Life, and a sketch-comedy program called Higgins Boys and Gruber for The Comedy Channel.

Mitchell Kriegman was the creator and executive producer of Clarissa Explains It All starring Melissa Joan Hart.

The series ran for four seasons and Mitchell Kriegman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1994, for Outstanding Children's Program.

Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree, narrated by Kermit the Frog, and Twisted Puppet Theater, had Mitchell Kriegman writing for puppet characters.

Mitchell Kriegman created the Emmy Award-winning television series, Bear in the Big Blue House, and created and directed, The Book of Pooh, based on the Milne books, both in association with the Disney Channel.

Mitchell Kriegman wrote for Sesame Street characters in the feature film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, co-written with Joey Mazzarino, and produced by The Jim Henson Company.

Mitchell Kriegman is the creator, executive producer and co-director of It's a Big Big World which aired on PBS Kids from 2006- 2010.

Mitchell Kriegman has taught webseries development and production and sitcom writing at Stony Brook Southampton, lectures at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mitchell Kriegman has won three Daytime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, he is the winner of the Directors Guild of America Award, and has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.

Mitchell Kriegman has contributed works to The New Yorker, the National Lampoon, Glamour magazine, and Harper's Bazaar.

At the community level, Mitchell Kriegman serves as the executive editor for the Montecito Morning Mojo, he has written for the Santa Barbara Independent and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Mitchell Kriegman created, produced and wrote screenplays for the television series, Clarissa Explains It All, He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland with Joey Mazzarino for The Jim Henson Company.

Mitchell Kriegman is a staff writer at the Montecito Journal, and creator of the Montecito Journal Morning Mojo.

Mitchell Kriegman is credited with the patented design of the hybrid special-effects technique called Shadowmation, that combines live action puppets, animatronics, and computer animation utilizing video game engines and virtual environments.

Mitchell Kriegman holds a variety of patents for hybrid animation technologies.