Impressionist (1999) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special |- |2000 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series |- |2000 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Directors Guild of America | | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs, for "A Berry Bear Christmas" |- |2001 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Writers Guild of America | | Children's Script, for "A Berry Bear Christmas" |- |2002 |The Book of Pooh (2001) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series |- |2003 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series |- |2003 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series |- |2004 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series |- |2004 |Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series |- |2005 |The Book of Pooh (2001) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series |- |2006 |It's a Big Big World (2006) | Environmental Media Association Award | |Children's Live Action Television |- |2007 |It's a Big Big World (2006) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series |- |2007 |It's a Big Big World (2006) | Daytime Emmy Awards | |Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series |- |2007 |It's a Big Big World (2006) | Environmental Media Association Award | |Children's Live Action |- | colspan="5"| |} Writing Kriegman has contributed works to The New Yorker, the National Lampoon, Glamour magazine, and Harper's Bazaar. At the community level, Kriegman serves as the executive editor for the Montecito Morning Mojo, he has written for the Santa Barbara Independent and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). As a screenwriter, Kriegman has written for Universal, Disney and Columbia Pictures. Kriegman created, produced and wrote screenplays for the television series, Clarissa Explains It All, He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) with Joey Mazzarino for The Jim Henson Company. Kriegman is a staff writer at the Montecito Journal, and creator of the Montecito Journal Morning Mojo. In July 2020, Kriegman donated his archives and working notes to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Performing