Craig Mazin

Craig Mazin is an American director, producer, and scriptwriter. He is known for his works in the movies Scary Movie 4, The Hangover Click to look into! >> Read More... Part II and Identity Thief Click to look into! >> Read More... . He was born in Brooklyn and was raised in the New York City. During his teenage, he moved to New Jersey. He did his schooling from the Freehold High School. He is a graduate in the subject of psychology from the Princeton University in the year 1992. At the Princeton University, he shared a room with Ted Cruz, who is now a candidate for the 2016 presidential election. Ted has tweeted many times on Craig Twitter account of how the two had issues during their college days. He began his career in the marketing department of Walt Disney Company as an executive during the mid-1990s. The work assigned to him in the company was on writing and producing campaigns for them. He had worked as a screenwriter in the movies like ‘Rocket Man,’ ‘Senseless,’ ‘Identity Thief,’ ‘Scary Movie 3,’ and ‘Scary Movie 4.’ His new projects include Opus, which is an animated collaboration along with cartoonist Berkeley Breathed.

He had been the director and producer of the film ‘The Specials.’ He played the role of director and actor in the ‘Superhero Movie.’ He wrote the script for the movie The Hangover and its series. He was selected as one among the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West, in 2004. His term expired in the year 2006. He had started a website along with Ted Elliott, who is a former WGA board member. The mane of the website was Artful Writer, which was based on the issues related to screenwriters. The website was shut down in 2011. In the same year, he started ‘Scriptnotes’ a weekly podcast along with screenwriter John August, which was again based on the issues of the film industry and screenwriting. He had written the script of the latest movie ‘The Huntsman: Winter's War’ in 2016.