William J. Stribling
Director
William J. Stribling has seen “Weird Al” Yankovic in concert 18 times and counting. Perhaps less importantly, he works in Los Angeles as a director and screenwriter.
He directed the award-winning films Bear with Us (feature), Down in Flames: the True Story of Tony “Volcano” Valenci (short), Lies I Told My Little Sister (feature), Beyond Belief (short), and The Archetypes (short), all of which enjoyed successful film festival runs.
Bear with Us, which he co-wrote with Russ Nickel, spent a year garnering awards on the festival circuit before securing distribution with Comedy Dynamics in 2017. Bear with Us stars Christy Carlson Romano and Cheyenne Jackson, and is currently streaming and on DVD.
Stribling directed the Streamy-nominated web series “Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party” for the YouTube channel Shipwrecked Comedy, as well as several short films. In 2022 he will direct the latest Shipwrecked Comedy web series, Headless, a modern adaptation of Sleepy Hollow.
Stribling’s first feature film, Lies I Told My Little Sister, was a “Geena Davis Selection” from her inaugural Bentonville Film Festival and subsequently released on DVD and streaming by ARC Entertainment.
For Adaptive Studios, Stribling co-created and directed a comedy/sci-fi series called Stellar People, starring Rory Albanese (multiple Emmy-winning writer/producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). The show will be available online in the near future.
He also works closely with the Latinx band Making Movies as a music video director and creative consultant.
In 2020, Stribling’s sci-fi/action/comedy short film “The Speed of Time” was released on DUST. The film stars John Hennigan (WWE star) and Sean Marquette (ABC’s The Goldbergs).
Stribling is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with degrees in Film & TV Production and Dramatic Literature. He also has a masters in screenwriting from Chapman University. But he credits any success to the clown camp he attended over the summers as a kid.