Mitchell Kriegman
| Mitchell Kriegman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 4, 1952 Richmond, Virginia |
| Other names | Marshall Klugman |
| Alma mater | Bennington College |
| Occupation | T.V. show maker, writer, director, producer, author |
| Known for | |
Mitchell Kriegman (born June 4, 1952) is a three-time Emmy Award winning American director, writer, producer and author. He is the creator of Clarissa Explains It All (1991) for Nickelodeon, Bear in the Big Blue House (1997), The Book of Pooh (2001) for the Disney Channel and It's a Big Big World (2006) for PBS.
Kriegman's first novel was Being Audrey Hepburn (2014). A second novel, Things I Can't Explain, is a reimagining of the protagonist in the Clarissa Explains It All television series, in her twenties, published in November 2015.
Kriegman holds patents for a method of hybrid animation, known as Shadowmation, which combines high-definition virtual-environments with puppets and animatronics, composited and rendered in real time. The production technique was implemented in The Book of Pooh and It's a Big Big World.
Kriegman attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, earning a BA in Literature in 1974.
He began his career as a writer, video-artist and performance-artist, under the pseudonym Marshall Klugman. An Evening of Stories and Tricks You Won’t See Anywhere, was performed at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City and surrounding venues. His video work of this period includes, The Marshall Klugman Show (1975) which aired on WNET television. As a short story writer, his work has been published in The New Yorker, Between C & D, the National Lampoon, Glamour, George Meyer's Army Man magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
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