birth_place other_names birth_date known_for article_title name occupation alma_mater
richmond , virginia marshall klugman 04 june 1952 '' the big blue house '' '' it 's a big clarissa big world '' explains it all '' '' bear in mitchell kriegman
 mitchell kriegman writer , educator , director , producer , songwriter , actor bennington college
mitchell kriegman

mitchell kriegman -lrb- born june 4 , 1952 -rrb- is a three-time emmy award winning american director , writer , producer , filmmaker , and novelist .
kriegman 's innovative content for film and television has been called groundbreaking ; his work has earned over a dozen emmy nominations and a directors guild award .
kriegman is the creator of `` clarissa explains it all '' -lrb- 1991 -rrb- for nickelodeon , `` bear in the big blue house '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , `` the book of pooh '' -lrb- 2001 -rrb- for the disney channel and `` it 's a big big world '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- for pbs .
kriegman may be best known as the creator and executive producer of `` clarissa explains it all '' , starring melissa joan hart .
kriegman 's first novel was `` being audrey hepburn '' -lrb- 2014 -rrb- , the story set in motion by hepburn 's iconic black dress from the 1961 film , `` breakfast at tiffany 's '' .
a second novel , `` things i ca n't explain '' , is a reimagining of the protagonist in the `` clarissa explains it all '' television series , in her twenties , and is scheduled for publication 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 '' .
