Craig Johnson

Birth Name:

Craig Johnson

Profession

Director, Writer, Editor

Held a showing of "The Skeleton Twins" at Bellingham's Pickford Film Center to benefit the Whatcom Center for Early Learning
Won the best screenplay award at the Sundance Film Festival for his script for "The Skeleton Twins․"
Graduated from the University of Washington, where he majored in theater, and late studied filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
He and college friend Mark Heyman wrote the script for "The Skeleton Twins" while they were in film school, hoping it would win them admission to a writing program at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute
Held a day job as an educational presenter for Pacific Science Center while living in the Seattle area and doing theater work and sketch comedy
Started writing original stories as a child, and before he could write, he would tell stories based on the "Star Wars" film franchise to his father, who would type them up for him
Quote: "I feel like I'll definitely be able to make another movie․ That's all you want as a filmmaker․"
Quote: "[on "The Skeleton Twins"] "There's a lot of personal stuff in the movie, and yet it's not overtly autobiographical․""
Played an ugly stepsister in his preschool's production of "Cinderella․"
Some of his favorite childhood movies were the "Star Wars" films, "Gremlins" and "The Raiders of the Lost Ark․"

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