Gus Krieger is a Los Angeles-based writer-producer-director-performer of stage and screen. As Associate Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company, he premiered his original stageplays Deity Clutch at the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival and Sherlock Through The Looking Glass at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in 2013, both to great acclaim. His 2015 satirical mashup Breaking Bard took home the Spirit of the Fringe Award for Best Writing out of 200+ shows. His absurdist Iraq War parable, The Armadillo Necktie, was produced by The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in 2016 and received eight Scenie awards from Stage Scene LA, including Best World Premiere Play.

Roles onstage with The Porters include Richard III (Richard III, Henry VI Parts 2 and 3), Shylock (The Merchant of Venice), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Don Adriano de Armado (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Master Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Guildenstern (Rosencranz & Guildenstern Are Dead) and King John (King John).

Krieger’s first produced original screenplay, The Killing Room (Chloë Sevigny, Nick Cannon, Shea Whigham, dir. Jonathan Liebesman), premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The same year, Krieger wrote and directed the horror short Ol’ Stan Levid, which played at TCL’s Chinese Theatre as part of Hollywood’s annual Screamfest Film Festival. He went on to serve in various producorial capacities on the feature films Would You Rather for IFC Midnight, Fender Bender for The Chiller Network, and Old Henry for Shout! Studios.

More recently, Krieger wrote, produced, and directed the feature films The Binding and My Name Is Myeisha, which played to great acclaim all over the world, taking home awards from Slamdance, Seattle International Film Festival, Boston Underground, Mammoth Lakes, and many others. In 2020, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Gus Krieger’s debut novel Superworld would be adapted into a feature film for Warner Bros. Entertainment and director Jason Bateman.