Kurt Sayenga

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Kurt Sayenga is a writer, director, and producer living in the Los Angeles area. He was originally active in the Washington, D.C. punk scene, and was a key player in the "[Meese Is A Pig]" poster campaign in the latter years of the Reagan era. He created, edited, and wrote most of Greed Magazine (notable for its first publication of Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese in its final issue) and designing albums for bands on the Dischord label such as Fugazi (Sayenga designed Fugazi's first six packages: the eps "Fugazi" and "Margin Walker," the CD "13 Songs," the CD/LPs "Repeater" and "Steady Diet of Nothing," and the 7" "Three Songs."). He worked briefly for the Discovery Channel and won an Emmy for the design of the opening credits on a series about tanks. During his time with the company Arcwelder Films (which he founded with Martha Adams), he wrote, directed and produced many documentaries, including Explosive Situations, High Speed Impacts, Inside the Kill Box (made on the tenth anniversary of the first Gulf War and featuring interviews with important figures such as George H. W. Bush and then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney), and the engineering series Skyscrapers: Going Up, Bridges: Reaching Out, and Tunnels: Digging In.