Craig Mazin is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor. He was born on April 8, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and he was raised on Staten Island, New York. He moved to Marlboro Township, New Jersey when he was a teen and attended Freehold High School which inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2010. Mazin graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992.
He is best known for creating the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, based on the Soviet nuclear disaster of the same name in 1986, and co-creating the HBO series The Last of Us, based on the video game of the same name created by Neil Druckmann. His work earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Limited Series. Mazin is also known for his extensive work on the comedy genre, namely Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Superhero Movie, Identity Thief, and the two sequels to The Hangover Trilogy.
