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American screenwriter and film director
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
(Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA)
Education:
University of Washington
New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Sehome High School
The details
Biography
Craig Johnson is an American screenwriter and film director.
Originally from Bellingham, Washington, he studied theatre at the University of Washington and worked for several years in theatre, in sketch comedy and as an educational presenter at the Pacific Science Center.
In 2002, he moved to New York City to study filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts. His thesis project for that program, True Adolescents, was released in 2009 as his first feature film. His second feature film, The Skeleton Twins, was released in 2014.
Johnson is openly gay. On May 23, 2015, he married television writer Adam Roberts, his boyfriend of 9 years, in Los Angeles.