Craig Mazin
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Craig Mazin (born April 8, 1971) is an American screenwriter and director. He was born in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992. He began his entertainment career in marketing; he was an executive with the Walt Disney Company in the mid-90s, responsible for writing and producing campaigns for studio films.
As a screenwriter, his credited work includes Senseless, Rocketman, Scary Movie 3, and Scary Movie 4. Other projects in development include the upcoming movie Opus, an animated collaboration with cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. He has worked almost exclusively for Dimension Films and Miramax Films since 2000.
He produced and directed (but did not write) the low-budget superhero film The Specials. Mazin is currently working on writing and directing another superhero film spoof Superhero!.
In 2004, Mazin was elected to the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America. He did not seek re-election, and his term expired in September 2006.
Along with fellow former WGA board member Ted Elliott, Mazin runs a website called The Artful Writer, which focuses on issues relevant to working screenwriters.
[edit] Trivia
In 1998, Craig appeared as a contestant on the game show Win Ben Stein's Money. Craig advanced to the second round with $300, but in the second round was eliminated by another contestant who had $1100, to his $600. Ben Stein then said that he did not feel as bad for him as other contestants because of how much money a screenwriter makes ($60,000 for 3 weeks' work). When the show was taped, he had just written the script for "Senseless".
