MIKE REISS
Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his twenty-one
years writing for “The Simpsons”. He ran
the show in Season 4, which Entertainment Weekly called “the greatest season of
the greatest show in history.” In 2006,
Reiss received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animation Writers
Caucus.
Reiss
co-created the animated series “The Critic” and created Showtime’s hit cartoon
“Queer Duck” (about a gay
duck). “Queer Duck” was named one of
“The 100 Greatest Cartoons of All Time” by the BBC. “Queer Duck: the Movie” was released to rave
reviews in July 2006, winning awards in New York, Chicago, San Diego, Sweden,
Germany and Wales.
Reiss’s other
TV credits include “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show”, “ALF”, and “The Tonight Show
with Johnny Carson”.
“My Life in Ruins”, a film inspired by his travels to
71 countries, was released in 2009.
Reiss also co-wrote ‘The Simpsons Movie” and “Ice Age 3”, with a
combined world-wide gross of $1.5 billion.
Reiss’ first play, “I’m Connecticut” set box-office
records for Connecticut Repertory Theater.
The Hartford Courant called it “sweet and hysterically funny” and named
it one of the year’s Ten Best Plays.
Broadway World Connecticut voted it Best Play of 2012.
His caveman detective story “Cro-Magnon P.I.” won an
Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He has published seventeen children’s books,
including the best-seller “How Murray Saved Christmas” and the award-winning
“Late for School”. Reiss also composes
puzzles for “NPR”, and “Games Magazine”.
As a professional speaker, Reiss has lectured at over two
hundred colleges and institutions, on six continents. His topics include “The Simpsons”, comedy
and Judaism, and the sorry state of television. Reiss is a former president of “The Harvard
Lampoon” and editor of “The National Lampoon”.
He has been happily married for twenty-five
years. Like most children’s book
authors, he has no children.
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