Tim Kring

Tim Kring is one of the creative community’s original transmedia storyteller, who successfully works across entertainment and information mediums, including viewing screens and delivery devices such as film, TV, broadband, computers, mobile devices and the printed page to engage audiences around the world in narrative and immersive story arcs.  In April, 2010, Kring received the Pioneer Prize at the International Digital Emmy® Awards in Cannes in recognition of his industry-leading creativity in multi-screen storytelling.

From 2001 to 2010, Kring’s key role in the entertainment industry was as creator and executive producer of “Crossing Jordan” and “Heroes,” NBC’s Emmy®-nominated epic saga that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.  During his work on “Heroes”, Kring connected with both traditional TV and cross-media viewers who watched and followed the “Heroes” characters and plotlines across broadcast TV, cable, online/broadband and mobile devices.  Kring was the first in the television industry to create and offer significant interactive online programming to both engage and build a fan base of an estimated 76 million people around the world during the Fall, Spring as well as traditional Summer re-run season.  

Current projects include Kring’s first book, SHIFT, part of a trilogy entitled THE GATE OF ORPHEUS co-written with New York author Dale Peck.  SHIFT, a Crown Publishing release will debut in mid-August, 2010 in bookstores nationwide.  

Holding the belief that narrative has the power to create and promote positive change in the world, Kring is also working with Nokia to stage an interactive narrative story, code named Project TEVA, which will once again engage ordinary citizens to join forces for good against evil.  The project incorporates charitable social benefits for Room to Read and the Pearson Foundation.  Visit www.conspiracyforgood.com to join this ground-breaking narrative-driven community that will include exciting meet-up activities across London in late summer, 2010.

A prolific and accomplished screenwriter and producer with the ability to seamlessly move between the mediums of television and film storytelling, Kring got his first big break in Hollywood in 1985 writing an episode for “Knight Rider”, which taped its first episode in 1982 and aired for four seasons and was syndicated worldwide.   He then spent the next eleven years writing feature films, including the sequel “Teen Wolf II,” series pilots and made for television movies such as “Bay Coven” and “Falling for You.”