Randal Kleiser

Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, "Grease". Other credits include "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble", "The Blue Lagoon", "Summer Lovers", "Flight of the Navigator", "White Fang", "North Shore", and "It’s My Party". In 2007, his USC thesis film Peege was selected to be added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. With George Lucas and in association with USC School of Cinematic Arts, he produced the documentary, "The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors." While in high school he attended classes at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art and the Bryn Mawr Art Center, where he discovered his love for sketching. Kleiser has served as chair of the Directors Guild’s annual Digital Day for over two decades and was invited to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His first book, "Grease: The Director’s Notebook", was published by HarperCollins in 2019.