Stuart Bass

Bass was born in Montreal, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1978 in Communication Arts and a M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980. According to Editors Guild Magazine : November/December 2009: Bass has a 27-year editing career that defies the popular notion of television as a toil-and-spin creative wasteland. Beginning with his work on the groundbreaking mid-1980s series The Wonder Years and continuing on shows such as Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Pushing Daisies, Arrested Development, Barbershop and The Office, Bass has helped define the shape of the modern single- camera television comedy, removing the laugh track, adding the fourth wall and bringing to the small screen a synthesis of feature film and experimental cinematic ideas about writing, production and, of course, editing. He is a member of American Cinema Editors. He was a governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences from 2007 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2017. He retired as an editor/director in 2019 and is pursuing fine art photography.