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Alan Kingsberg

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  • Producer
  • Director
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Alan Kingsberg received his MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where his film Minors won an Academy Award as the top student film in the US. His work in television includes writing an ACE Award winning documentary for HBO, and writing and producing the BAFTA nominated animated series Cubix for FOX. Kingsberg has also written for Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Kids classics like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Shining Time Station and Doug. He was a showrunner on five animated series for Fox, The CW and Cartoon Network, including the hits Cubix, Pokemon Chronicles and Winx Club. He has written or produced over 250 half-hours of television for major broadcast and cable networks and has written feature films for Disney and Universal Pictures.

Kingsberg originated the popular TV Writing workshops at Columbia University's Graduate Film School where he taught for 17 years. He has launched TV Writing programs in Sao Paulo and Prague and is now Program Director of a new TV Writing MFA program at Stony Brook/Killer Films in Manhattan. Kingsberg's students have won numerous awards including multiple first place prizes at the Austin Film Festival, The TV Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Made In NY Fellowship, a Humanitas Award, an HBO Fellowship and a Fox Writers Intensive Prize, all with scripts written in his workshops. After graduating, his students have gone on to write and produce on prime time shows such as, Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, Narcos, Stranger Things, Mozart in the Jungle, Orphan Black, The Deuce, Insecure, City on a Hill, Quantico, Inside Amy Schumer, Smash, New Girl, The Originals, Vegas, Weeds, Californicaton, The Detour, Last Man Standing, Law and Order, Conan O'Brien and Onion News Network.
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Monsters (1988)
Monsters
7.3
TV Series
  • Writer
Pokémon Chronicles (1998)
Pokémon Chronicles
7.2
TV Series
  • Writer
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
8.2
TV Series
  • Writer
Buy Me That 3! A Kid's Guide to Food Advertising (1992)
Buy Me That 3! A Kid's Guide to Food Advertising
TV Movie
  • Writer
  • 1992

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Writer

  • Winx Club (2004)
    Winx Club
    • script
    • screenplay
    • story editor (2019)
    • TV Series
    • 2011–2019
  • World of Winx (2016)
    World of Winx
    • script
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2017
  • Chaotic (2006)
    Chaotic
    • writer
    • teleplay
    • TV Series
    • 2007–2009
  • Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Julianne Nicholson, and Chris Noth in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    • story by
    • teleplay by
    • TV Series
    • 2008
  • Dinosaur King (2007)
    Dinosaur King
    • Writer (2007)
    • TV Series
    • 2007
  • Pokémon Chronicles (1998)
    Pokémon Chronicles
    • writer
    • TV Series
    • 2000–2004
  • Pokemon: The Legend of Thunder (2001)
    Pokemon: The Legend of Thunder
    • writer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2001
  • Shaman King (2001)
    Shaman King
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 2001
  • Cubix: Robots for Everyone (2001)
    Cubix: Robots for Everyone
    • Writer (2001)
    • TV Series
    • 2001
  • Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (1998)
    Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation
    • writer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1998–2000
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
    Are You Afraid of the Dark?
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 1995–2000
  • Out of the Box (1998)
    Out of the Box
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 1998
  • Kristian Ayre, Erica Luttrell, and Charlotte Sullivan in The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997)
    The New Ghostwriter Mysteries
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 1997
  • Kids Like You (1984)
    Kids Like You
    • teleplay
    • TV Series
    • 1995
  • Buy Me That 3! A Kid's Guide to Food Advertising (1992)
    Buy Me That 3! A Kid's Guide to Food Advertising
    • Writer
    • TV Movie
    • 1992

Producer

  • Beyond Utopia (2023)
    Beyond Utopia
    • co-executive producer
    • 2023
  • Dinosaur King (2007)
    Dinosaur King
    • supervising producer (2007)
    • TV Series
    • 2007
  • Winx Club: Quest for the Codex (2006)
    Winx Club: Quest for the Codex
    • game producer
    • Video Game
    • 2006
  • Pokémon Chronicles (1998)
    Pokémon Chronicles
    • supervising producer
    • TV Series
    • 2000–2004
  • Pokemon: The Legend of Thunder (2001)
    Pokemon: The Legend of Thunder
    • supervising producer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2001
  • Cubix: Robots for Everyone (2001)
    Cubix: Robots for Everyone
    • supervising producer (2001)
    • TV Series
    • 2001
  • Shaman King (2001)
    Shaman King
    • supervising producer (2004-2005)
    • TV Series
    • 2001
  • Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (1998)
    Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation
    • supervising producer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1998–2000
  • Way Cool
    • supervising producer (1991)
    • TV Series
    • 1991

Director

  • Monsters (1988)
    Monsters
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 1988
  • Almost Partners (1987)
    Almost Partners
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 1987
  • Kids Like You (1984)
    Kids Like You
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 1986

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