Craig Shilowich

Craig started out in the industry as a child actor. He never quite broke out, appearing mostly on late night cable TV and in regional industrial videos. Here is a review of a play he was in in Rochester, NY at the prestigious Geva Theater in which he receives what can only be described as a backhanded compliment.

For years Craig was a production guy — working on set as LP, UPM, AP. He worked on Frozen River, which won the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. He worked with such indie film luminaries as Todd Solondz, Wayne Wang, Ted Hope.

In 2012 Craig was the UPM on David Gordon Green's Joe. An excellent and peculiar film. He wrote a book about that experience. You can read the first chapter here and he'd be happy to share the whole thing with you if you'd like.

During this time, to pay the rent, Craig also produced and PM'd commercials, dramatic re-enactments of parasitic infestations for Animal Planet, and music videos like Beyoncé's "1+1."

In 2013 Craig produced Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, a movie about an unhappy ad executive working on a campaign for augmented reality glasses. A true run-and-gun NYC indie made for less than half a million dollars. While producing it he also produced a branded content spot for Google Glass, following a tennis player through a performance at Wimbledon. He got stuck at the airport for an hour with the glasses because he hadn't declared them properly and almost missed the shoot. The glasses made him feel dizzy and sort of sick.

In 2015–2016 Craig wrote and produced Antonio Campos's Christine, starring Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, J. Smith-Cameron, and Maria Dizzia — about a Florida newscaster who can't quite figure out her life. He is fond of this conversation he had with Antonio about it. There were also some good interviews. And this story the New Yorker ran.

After Christine, Craig produced Robin Comisar's hit short film Great Choice. Filmed in a catering hall down the street from his house in Flatbush, Brooklyn right before Christmas. A feature film version is in the works.

From 2017–2019 Craig worked on Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story as Executive Producer. He learned a lot on that movie — mostly that if you're ever going to get divorced, file first in the city of your choosing and poison the well of available lawyers by visiting them all before your spouse does.

During Covid Craig was a writer and producer on Antonio Campos's miniseries The Staircase, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette. He developed a paralyzing fear of stairwells and staircases that follows him and his children around to this day. Here is a podcast episode he did about Episode 5, "The Beating Heart."

Craig is currently working on assignment for a studio on a script about the 1973 Houston Mass Murders and an unlikely 'detective' who went to investigate them after they were seemingly solved.

He is also writing a personal spec script called Trash Men, about two brothers who grew up around junkyards and scrap recycling in Philadelphia.

Oh. Craig also wrote short stories for a few years somewhere in the middle there too.

Here is one he is particularly proud of, published by Joyland.

He lives in Los Angeles with his family.