John Strauss has been writing and producing television series, feature Films, both live action and computer animated for over thirty years.
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John Strauss has been writing and producing television series, feature Films, both live action and computer animated for over thirty years.
John’s credits as a screenwriter include “There’s Something About Mary”, “Santa Clause II”, Santa Clause III”, starring Tim Allen, “The Lizzie McGuire Movie”, and “Free Birds”, a computer animated feature, starring Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.
On the television side, John has been an executive producer/show runner on over ten different television series. His most recent executive producing/writing credits include the Peabody Award winning series, David Makes Man, the Emmy winning computer animated series, Arcane and the Golden Globe winning series, Mozart in the Jungle.
He is currently adapting South Korean film, Crying Fist, with MGM Television, developing a single camera half hour anime pilot with Viola Davis’s company, Juvee. John is also in preproduction on a feature film he wrote, Meet the Clauses, with Producers José Bastón and Eva Longoria.
John is also adapting “There’s Something About Mary” as a Broadway musical with Peter Farrelly.