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Simon Gribben is an award winning writer, producer, director and editor of television news and sports. He has won several Emmys as a producer of one-hour specials and a news series and also won an Emmy as a film editor for ABC Sports and has been nominated twice as a sports writer. Two of the films he edited for ABC Sports won first place for public relations films at the New York International TV and Film Festival. He is the creator of the original �The Football Follies� which has become an iconic franchise for the NFL.

Among his many awards is a �Cine Eagle� and first place for best documentary at the University Film Association: a 10-minute �cinema verite� of a Catasaqua pizza bar. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has 5 of his films in their collection, all of which he wrote, produced, directed and edited. He even shot and narrated one of them. The Museum of Television and Radio in New York has dozens of his works that includes a Public Access show he hosted in Santa Monica on metaphysics.

Mr. Gribben was born and raised in Allentown, PA, is divorced and has 2 children, both of whom have advanced degrees. He and his children have studied acting and Mr. Gribben was in 3 off-Broadway plays. Barbra Streisand was in Mr. Gribben�s acting class in New York when both were teenagers.

When he graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1963 with a major in English and a minor in Education and two children, he was hired as a management trainee with JC Penney�s in King of Prussia (he even had lunch with JC). He stayed one year and then took a job in the Philadelphia Public Schools for 2 years as an English teacher at Tilden Jr. High.

While securing 15 credits of graduate courses at Temple University in Radio, Television and Film where he made the pizza bar film, he took a summer job in 1966 as a Gofer in a sport�s film company in Philadelphia and the rest is, as they say, history.

Two final notes: In 1975 he was ordained as a Sufi Reverend and has been a wandering dervish ever since. He also is a published poet in a New York underground poetry journal, �The Nomad�s Choir�, and had a poem published in a NFL Football program in 1969.