Jay Craven

Award-winning writer, director, and producer, Jay Craven makes place-based narrative feature films and directs the biennial Cinema Sarah Lawrence program where 25 professionals mentor and collaborate with 35 students from multiple colleges to make an ambitious feature film for narrative release. Craven curates the Northeast Kingdom’s KCP Presents performance series, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, and the Woodstock Film Series. He teaches screenwriting and film directing at Sarah Lawrence College and produces workshops for kids and teens in playwriting, filmmaking, circus arts, and sketch comedy. [bio from: https://kingdomcounty.org/about]