Kim Krizan

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Kim Krizan is an American writer best known for her work on Before Sunrise 1995 and Before Sunset 2004 for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild Award Krizan was featured in Richard Linklaters Slacker 1991 and Waking Life 2001 She is also known for her part in Dazed and Confused 1993 in which she plays a high school teacher who informs her students that the 1976 Bicentennial celebrates a bunch of slaveowning aristocratic white males who didnt want to pay their taxes In 2007 Krizan was selected as spokesperson for the screenwriting software Final Draft Starting in 2008 Krizan branched out into writing comic books and graphic novels She wrote the 2061 comic series that was published in Zombie Tales 1 9 and 11 by BOOM Studios with all three installments collected into a standalone graphic novel entitled Zombie Tales 2061 in mid2009 This led to an appearance at the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books where she along with Chip Mosher Michael Alan Nelson Gary Philips and Mark Waid participated in Big Bold BOOM BOOM Studios Talks Comics discussion which was moderated by Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher She contributed the story Of and Concerning the Ancient Mystical and Holy Origins of That Most Down and Dirty 20th Century Rock n Roll Club CBGB to issue 3 of the CBGB comic book miniseries that hit store shelves in September 2010 As of the Fall of 2010 a collection of the four issue miniseries is available as a standalone graphic novel TVO Saturday Night At The Movies selected Kim Krizan for a promotional spot that is currently airing now in celebration of the shows 40th anniversary Krizan currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to write while also teaching writing courses in and around Los Angeles most notably at UCLA Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Krizan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia