Steven Paul Leiva received a 2008 Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his YA novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas, for which he had written the original treatment. Leiva’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003 and gathered praise from the likes of Ray Bradbury. Leiva’s play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. He produced, directed and co-wrote the theater piece Bob Bergen: Not Just Another Pretty Voice, which received an ADA Award Nomination for Best Production of a One-Person Play. In film Leiva produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basket Ball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros. film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Leiva has also had a brief career as an actor having voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the Oscar.
