Alan Zdinak

Alan Zdinak is a producer, writer, and director best known for five seasons of Emmy nominated directing on Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues (1996). After earning a degree in art and philosophy from NYU, Zdinak worked in commercial and then music video production in New York. He spent several years as a key collaborator with Oscar/Emmy/MTV lauded visionary Zbigniew Rybczynski. He got his directing break at a Silicon Valley subsidiary of Paramount, returning to New York to helm over two dozen episodes of "Blue's Clues". Zdinak went on to produce and direct for Oxygen, The History Channel, NatGeo Kids, and others. He later reinvented himself to become a fossil preparator at Yale University, the Smithsonian, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, though he still dabbles in online video.