Mitchell Kriegman

Mitchell Kriegman is the author of Being Audrey Hepburn, and Things I Can’t Explain — a sequel to his groundbreaking cult classic 90s Nickelodeon show, Clarissa Explains it All - Clarissa reimagined at 26.

Kriegman's short stories have been published in The New Yorker, the National Lampoon, Army Man, Glamour, Between C&D, New York Press and Harper's Bazaar.

He joined the team of Saturday Night Live as a filmmaker, performer, and writer and contributed to the cult classic Mr. Mike's Mondo Video.

Mitchell was also the executive story editor of the original Ren and Stimpy. Rugrats, Doug and Rocko's Modern Life. He created the children classics Bear in the Big Blue House, Book of Pooh and It's a Big Big World and wrote Elmo in Grouchland and has written original screenplays for Rogue, Universal, Disney, Columbia Pictures and others.

He is the winner of four Emmy Awards, the Director's Guild Award and an American Film Institute Fellowship (AFI) as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mitchell began his career performing in the dark "An Evening of Stories and Tricks You Won't See Anywhere" and other original performance artworks in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace and throughout the country. His video works are part of The Museum of Broadcasting, Whitney Museum, London Institute among others.