John Strysik

John Strysik was a director and writer on all four seasons of the syndicated television show TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE. He also directed episodes of MONSTERS and ABC's reboot of LAND OF THE LOST. He began his career in Chicago adapting short stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Franz Kafka while editing industrial films and television commercials.He wrote the screenplay for STUCK directed by Stuart Gordon, starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea. The film won San Francisco Indiefest's Staff Prize and Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Silver Raven.He has published a fantasy novel called A HALLOW HEART and co-wrote LURKER IN THE LOBBY - A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft.VILLAINY ~or~ Holmes' Own Story, his play about America's first serial killer H.H. Holmes, premiered at Whitefire Theatre and was nominated for three Valley Theatre Awards.Strysik lives in Los Angeles.