Lifetime Achievement Award, Accomplished Screenwriter: Stu Krieger
Stu Krieger is a professor of screen and television writing in the University of California, Riverside's Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production and in the Creative Writing for the Performing Arts MFA Program at UCR. Each fall, he also teaches the Producing the Screenplay class at USC's Peter Stark MFA Producing Program.
Krieger co-wrote the Emmy award winning mini-series A Year in the Life and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for co-writing the Disney Channel original movie, Going to the Mat.
Among his more than 25 produced credits, Krieger wrote the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg & George Lucas and ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, and Cow Belles.
He has been a story editor and writer on Spielberg's Amazing Stories and the supervising producer on the ABC Television series Jack's Place. He served as the head writer and story editor of the animated preschool series Toot & Puddle on Nickelodeon in 2008-2009.
His first full-length play, Chasing Smoke, debuted in a staged reading at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre in Burbank in July 2014. His short film script Bad Timing was produced by the UCR Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production in March, 2016. He is an Executive Producer on "The Binding," a 2016 feature film written and directed by his son, Gus Krieger and also served as an Executive Producer on "My Name is Myeisha," Gus's second feature film which Gus co-wrote with UCR TFDP Professor Rickerby Hinds. "Myeisha" was shot entirely on location in Riverside in October 2016.
Mr. Krieger's TEDx Talk, "Choose Joy," can be viewed at:
His first novel, That One Cigarette, will be published by Harvard Square Editions in the fall of 2017.