Tug Yourgrau
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Tuggelin (Tug) Yourgrau is an American playwright and TV producer. He is the President of Powderhouse Productions in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Yourgrau was born in South Africa and moved to America at the age of 10. He graduated from Denver South High School, then from Swarthmore College with a degree in philosophy, and received a master's in history from Boston University.
Career
After periods of odd jobs, he became a producer at WGBH-TV where he met Joel Olicker. Together they formed their TV production company, Powderhouse Productions.
Works
Film
- Thy Kingdom Come... Thy Will Be Done (1988)- Associate Producer[1]
Television
- Engineering the Impossible (2002)- Consultant
- Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies (2002)- Producer, Director, Writer
- Inside the U.S Mint (2000)- Director, Narrator, Producer
- Killer's Trail (2000)- Consultant
- Mummies: The Real Story (1999)- Producer, Director
- Machine That Changed the World (1992)- Narrator
- Discovering Psychology (1991)- Producer
- Living Against the Odds (1991)- Writer, Producer, Director[1]
- Cats 101 (2012)- Executive Producer
- Must Love Cats (2012)- Executive Producer
- Pets 101 (2012)- Executive Producer
- America's Cutest Pet (2012)- Executive Producer
- America's Cutest Cat (2011)- Executive Producer
- Dogs 101 (2011)- Executive Producer
- America's Cutest Dog (2011)- Executive Producer
- America's Cutest Dog (2010)- Executive Producer
- Dogs vs. Cats (2010)- Executive Producer
- Magnificent Voyage of Christopher Columbus (2008)- Voice
- Build it Bigger (2007)- Executive Producer
- Red, White & New (2013)- Executive Producer
