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Kit Boss
Kit Boss
After being raised in Michigan surrounded by farm animals and religious zealots, Kit Boss worked as a print journalist in Seattle for most of a decade before selling out and becoming a TV writer. He won two Emmy awards for his work on Disney Presents: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Since then his credits include a long stint on the animated series King of the Hill, a much shorter stint on HBO's attempt to re-invent the dirtiest sitcom ever, Lucky Louie, and the shortest stint yet as executive producer of the U.S. adaptation of the much-lauded, much-loved Aardman animated series, Creature Comforts. He currently pickets with his fellow striking WGA members in Los Angeles.
Richard 'Golly' Goleszowski
Richard Goleszowski
Richard Goleszowski (aka:Golly) was born in Suffolk, England in 1959. After completing a degree in Fine Art at Exeter, he spent some time working as an illustrator and DJ before joining Aardman in 1893. During his first nine years at Aardman he worked on several short films and promos including Morph, sledgehammer for Peter Gabriel, Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse in New York, his own film Indent and Rex the Runt pilot films.
His commercial work includes Domestos Big Dom, Grolsch, Cadbury's Crème Eggs, Weetos and Maltesers and several commercials for the European market.
In 1992, Golly left Aardman to pursue a freelance career during which time he worked in New Zealand as Production Adviser for Oscar and Friends, and wrote and directed 13 episodes of Rex the Runt for BBC2, winning the Carlton Award for International Animation at The Indies in 2000.
He then went on to direct Robbie the Reindeer in 1999 for the BBC Animation Unit. Robbie went on to win 19 international awards including a prestigious British Academy of film and Television Arts award (BAFTA).
Following the success of Robbie Golly worked for two years developing projects for Aardman's feature film department a s well as overseeing the second series of Rex the Runt as Executive Producer.
From 2003 he directed two series of Creature Comforts — 2x13 episodes for ITV based on the Academy Award winning Nick Park short film. The first series went on to win 17 awards, and both series were nominated for BAFTA. The second series includes a half-hour Christmas special.
In July 2005, Golly rejoined Aardman as Creative Director of the busy Broadcast and Development team, writing scripts, and overseeing new projects in development as well as working on his own ideas.
Destined to be a huge success is Aardman's first TV series for kids, Shaun the Sheep. The series is inspired by Nick Park's A Close Shave but it is Golly who devised the 40 part series and has overseen the project as Series Director. Shaun the Sheep debuted on BBC1 & CBBC in March 2007 and has already been sold to 150 countries around the world.
Dan Sinclair
Dan Sinclair
Born and bred in North Yorkshire, Daniel's first job in television was
directing short community based films for
regional television in his university town of Bournemouth. He then spent
over a year in Bristol at Aardman
Animations as an interviewer on the UK series of Creature Comforts. After
this he travelled the world as a field
producer for Discovery Channel's 'Reel Race'. Dan moved to London in 2005
and has worked his way up to producer
& director roles. During this period he worked in LA on Creature Comforts
America. Daniel recently co-directed a
30-minute documentary for channel 4 television. He is currently working as
a producer on channel 4's flagship
factual entertainment series 'Gordon Ramsay's f word'.
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