Jörg Tittel

Jörg was born in Belgium, son of Joanna Bruzdowicz and Jürgen Tittel. In 1998, Jörg moved to New York City, where he graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Conservatory. To finance his studies, he worked for a variety of videogame magazines, including Next Gen, Official Dreamcast Magazine, Famitsu DC and others. After acting in numerous stage productions, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a game designer and writer on video games, including Activision's 'Minority Report', based on Steven Spielberg's movie. Jörg's work spans across film, theatre, games, graphic novels and beyond. His most recent success is graphic novel 'Ricky Rouse Has a Gun', an action comedy set in China. Boston Globe named it one of the Best Books of 2014. Together with his wife, Alex Helfrecht, and producer Philip Munger, Jörg founded London and New York based Oiffy. Their first feature film, scifi drama The White King (2016), starring Jonathan Pryce, Agyness Deyn, Fiona Shaw, among others, was shot in the summer of 2015 and will premiere in 2016. Jörg is a frequent speaker on transmedia, e.g at. Develop, BAFTA, London Book Fair, GDC Europe and StoryDrive at Frankfurt Book Fair.