From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kim Krizan is an American writer best known for her work on Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and a Writers Guild Award. Krizan was featured in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and Waking Life (2001). She is also known for her part in Dazed and Confused (1993) in which she plays a high school teacher who informs her students that the 1976 Bicentennial celebrates "a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males who didn't want to pay their taxes."

In 2007, Krizan was selected as spokesperson for the screenwriting software Final Draft.

Starting in 2008, Krizan branched out into writing comic books and graphic novels. She wrote the "2061" comic series that was published in Zombie Tales #1, 9, and 11 by BOOM! Studios, with all three installments collected into a stand-alone graphic novel entitled Zombie Tales 2061 in mid-2009. This led to an appearance at the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where she along with Chip Mosher, Michael Alan Nelson, Gary Philips and Mark Waid participated in "Big! Bold! BOOM!: BOOM! Studios Talks Comics," discussion, which was moderated by Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher.

She contributed the story "Of and Concerning the Ancient, Mystical, and Holy Origins of That Most Down and Dirty 20th Century Rock n' Roll Club: CBGB" to issue #3 of the CBGB comic book miniseries that hit store shelves in September 2010. As of the Fall of 2010, a collection of the four issue miniseries is available as a stand-alone graphic novel.

TVO Saturday Night At The Movies selected Kim Krizan for a promotional spot that is currently airing now in celebration of the show's 40th anniversary.

Krizan currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to write while also teaching writing courses in and around Los Angeles, most notably at UCLA.

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Kim Krizan 是一位美国作家，以《日出之前》（1995 年）和《日落之前》（2004 年）而闻名，并因此获得奥斯卡金像奖（最佳改编剧本）和作家协会奖提名。克里赞出现在理查德·林克莱特的《懒汉》（1991）和《觉醒的生活》（2001）中。她还因在《茫然与困惑》（1993 年）中的角色而闻名，她在片中扮演一名高中老师，她告诉她的学生，1976 年的两百周年纪念是为了庆祝“一群不想纳税的奴隶主、贵族白人男性”。

2007年，Krizan被选为编剧软件Final Draft的代言人。

从 2008 年开始，Krizan 开始创作漫画书和图画小说。她写了“2061”漫画系列，由 BOOM 在 Zombie Tales #1、9 和 11 中出版！工作室，在2009年年中将所有三部作品收集成一部名为《僵尸故事2061》的独立图画小说。这导致她出现在 2009 年洛杉矶时报图书节上，在那里她与 Chip Mosher、Michael Alan Nelson、Gary Philips 和 Mark Waid 一起参加了“Big！大胆！砰！：砰！Studios Talks Comics“讨论，由《洛杉矶时报》作家 Geoff Boucher 主持。

她为2010年9月上架的CBGB漫画迷你系列的#3贡献了故事“关于那个最落魄和最肮脏的20世纪摇滚俱乐部的古老，神秘和神圣的起源：CBGB”。截至 2010 年秋季，四期迷你剧的合集可作为独立的图画小说提供。

TVO Saturday Night At The Movies 选择了 Kim Krizan 作为目前正在播出的宣传广告，以庆祝该节目的 40 周年。

Krizan 目前居住在洛杉矶，在那里她继续写作，同时还在洛杉矶及其周边地区教授写作课程，尤其是在加州大学洛杉矶分校。