Rick Gitelson (born Washington, D.C.) is an Emmy Award-winning American television and film producer and screenwriter.
Gitelson's writing and producing credits include for TV: Imagination Movers, Handy Manny, Rugrats, LazyTown, Dragon Tales, Hey Arnold and Recess; and for film: Whispers in the Dark, A Case for Murder, Becoming Dick and The Family Plan.[1]
He won a 2002-2003 Emmy Award and a 1999 Humanitas Award for writing and producing the Nickelodeon television series Rugrats[1] and the 2010 Writers Guild of America Award[2] for Imagination Movers. He has also received a Vision Award from the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, a Genesis Award[3] from the Humane Society, an Imagen Award, and an Environmental Media Award,[4] for his work on Handy Manny.