Mathew Klickstein

Mathew Klickstein
Occupation Screenwriter, journalist, author, therapist, playwright
American writer, filmaker and producer.
Mathew Klickstein, photographed in 2018.

Mathew Klickstein is an American screenwriter, journalist, author, arts therapist and playwright.

Career

Klickstein was the writer of the 2009 American horror film Against the Dark, starring Steven Seagal and served as a casting producer on Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible from 2013 until the series ended in 2016.[1][2] In 2012 he co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote Phamaly Theatre Company's disLabled, a multimedia performance involving actors with disabilities.[3]

Klickstein's non-fiction book titled SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, which covers the early development of Nickelodeon.,[4] was featured on Parade's "Year’s Best Books About Movies and TV" for 2013,[5] listed as one of the top four tell-all books of 2013 by Entertainment Weekly[6] and picked as one of the top ten social science books by Publishers Weekly.[7]

On September 27, 2013, Klickstein moderated a three-hour long series of panels with more than 40 creative members of the Nickelodeon community, including actors, producers, writers, show creators and network personnel at the 92nd Street Y[8] in New York called Double Dare We Say It: A Nickelodeon Historical Celebration.

The event was also produced by Klickstein, hosted by Marc Summers and included the first live performance by the Beets, a fictional band featured on the animated Nickelodeon series Doug, made up of Fred Newman and Dan Sawyer who produced the music and sound effects for the show.

Similar reunion and panel events followed at Book Soup,[9] Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe,[10] Iowa City's FilmScene[11] and, in 2014, various others as part of a short Jewish Book Council tour[12]

Klickstein has written for multiple publications, including Wired, New York Daily News, Alternative Press, Boulder Weekly, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Jewish Times, Splitsider, Yellow Scene, Daily Camera, Colorado Daily, iTech Post, Ink Magazine, Hammer to Nail, and OC Weekly.

In late 2017, Klickstein completed his most recent film On Your Marc, a documentary about television personality Marc Summers.[13][14][15] He also produced a nationwide tour of preview screenings and live events in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Austin, Baltimore and Chicago.[16][17][18]

Klickstein has worked with various organizations around the country as an arts therapist to assist persons with disabilities, including Boulder, Colorado's Imagine! facilities. In 2010, he partnered Imagine! with Yellow Scene Magazine to create an adaptive journalism class for Imagine! clients, which he instructed and whose monthly articles were published by Yellow Scene.[19]

In 2014, Klickstein attracted some controversy after Flavorwire posted an interview in which he discussed how the Nickelodeon network had changed over the years.[20] Despite its being “edited for clarity,” resulting in numerous errors such as the insinuation that Klickstein is not Jewish, the post was aggregated by several other online outlets that were critical of what appeared to be its subject's take on the nuances of diversity representation in modern media.

In 2016, Klickstein became the host of NERTZ, an interview-based podcast focusing on Nerd/Geek Culture. The podcast is based on Klickstein's book Nerding Out, released in China in 2018[21]. Guests have included Diablo Cody, Jai Nitz, Alex Winter, Mike Reiss, Missy Suicide, Adam Bradley, and John Park, co-creator of the fictional Flo (Progressive) Insurance spokeswoman.[22]

Working for eight months with Kansas-based Orange Mouse Theatricals and a group of local girls, Klickstein ran a series of workshops in order to produce and co-write a gender-bending, immersive theatrical experience thematically based on William Golding's 1954 novel The Lord of the Flies. The final piece, titled Ladies of the Fly, was performed by the girls involved in the writing process and opened at Cider Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas, on August 26, 2016.[23]

As a pop culture historian, Klickstein has contributed to numerous online and print articles such as those published by Slate and Thrillist.[24][25]

Klickstein co-authored Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Mike Reiss' memoir, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons, published by Harper Collins imprint Dey Street in June 2018.[26] 'Kirkus Reviews referred to the book as "a charming look at a cherished American show."[27] Vanity Fair (magazine) called the book "extremely funny.”[28] The book was also briefly excerpted in The New Yorker, [29] and The Wall Street Journal. [30] USA Today's Bill Keveney called the work "... full of humorous asides and fun facts." [31]

The Kids of Widney High

Klickstein has worked with The Kids of Widney High, a group of young adults with developmental disabilities who write, record and perform rock songs. His work with the group includes the production of numerous short films, music videos, visual art and creative writing projects. He co-directed and produced the 2010 feature-length rockumentary Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story, a chronicle of the band's West Coast tour.[32]

Bibliography

Books

  • Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (2018, Dey Street)
  • Nerding Out (2018, Business Weekly)
  • Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age (2013, Plume)[33]
  • Daisy Goes to the Moon (2009, Atomsmashers)

References

  1. ↑ "Hollywood hot on Maui". The Maui News. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
  2. ↑ "Against The Dark". Sony Pictures. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  3. ↑ "PHAMALy's 'disLabeled' tickles funny bones and comfort zones". Daily Camera. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  4. ↑ Engel, Meredith. "Author Matthew Klickstein looks back on Nickelodeon's 'Golden Age'". Metro. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  5. ↑ "The Year's Best Books About Movies and TV". Parade. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  6. ↑ "The Year's Best Tell-Alls". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  7. ↑ "PW's Top 10: Social Sciences". Publisher’s Weekly. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  8. ↑ "Double Dare We Say It: A Nickelodeon Historical Celebration (Full Video)". 92Y On Demand. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  9. ↑ "Mathew Klickstein presents and signs Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age". Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  10. ↑ Griffin, Gavin B. "In 'Slimed,' the complicated story of Nickelodeon". Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  11. ↑ Fluker, Meryn. "Nick kids author talks Nickelodeon nostalgia". Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "Mathew Klickstein - Jewish Book Council". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  13. ↑ http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/news/local/film-crew-follows-tv-host-marc-summers-to-bloomington-where/article_16366de2-266b-53ea-9485-6c3804c2db25.html
  14. ↑ http://www.visitbloomington.com/blog/index.cfm/2016/3/21/Marc-Summers-comes-to-Bloomington-for-theater-and-film/.php
  15. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-marc-summers-double-dare-anniversary-20161121-story.html
  16. ↑ http://people.com/tv/marc-summers-new-documentary/
  17. ↑ http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/celebrities/marc-summers-double-dare-unwrapped-food-network-movie-on-your-marc-slime-20171012.html
  18. ↑ http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/10/03/come-get-slimed-by-marc-summers-at-drafthouses-on-your-marc-event
  19. ↑ http://yellowscene.com/2010/01/06/imagine-the-possibilities/
  20. ↑ ""'Pete & Pete' Was All White People!": 'SLIMED!' Author Mathew Klickstein on Why 'Ren and Stimpy' Was Better Than 'Clarissa' and Nickelodeon's Diversity Problem". Flavorwire. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  21. ↑ "Nerding Out - Mathew Klickstein - E-book". TW. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  22. ↑ Klickstein, Mathew. "What Room Teaches Us About the Psychology of Fandom". Wired. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  23. ↑ "Orange Mouse Theatricals to stage re-imagined 'Lord of the Flies' with an all-female twist". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  24. ↑ Engber, Daniel. "Ghostbusters made slime a national obsession can the reboot make ooze cool". Slate. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  25. ↑ Thompson, Barry. "An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Double Dare". Thrillist. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  26. ↑ "Springfield Confidential - Mike Reiss, Mathew Klickstein - E-book". Harper Collins. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  27. ↑ "A Cartoon Pioneer Walks Us Down His Memory Lane". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  28. ↑ "Simpsons Stalwart Says the Show Already Addressed the Problem with Apu". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  29. ↑ "The "Simpsons" Jokes That Never Quite Made It (and a Few that Barely Did)". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  30. ↑ "How to Succeed Like 'The Simpsons.'". WSJ.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  31. ↑ "'Springfield Confidential' spills juicy secrets of 'The Simpsons'". USAToday.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  32. ↑ "TUNING OUT ADVERSITY. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  33. ↑ "'Slimed' brings back Nickelodeon's heyday". Newsday. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
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