He is the director of 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 Speed of Time (short), all of which enjoyed successful film festival runs.
Bear with Us, which stars Cheyenne Jackson and Christy Carlson Romano, spent a year garnering awards on the festival circuit before securing distribution with Comedy Dynamics.
For Shipwrecked Comedy, Stribling directed the Streamy-nominated web series “Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party.”
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 (Emmy-winning writer/producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). The show will be available online in the near future.
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).
For the past six years, he has taught screenwriting at Chapman University, ranked as the #4 film school in the US by the Hollywood Reporter.
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.
You can reach him at williamjstribling@gmail.com
