Craig’s development and consultation includes story consult on Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man (Universal / Bron Studios) and development with Flying Bark Productions (Sydney), Studio Bozzetto (Milan), POP Family Entertainment (Sydney) and other companies in Australia and Los Angeles.
Most recently, Craig wrote the production draft for the animated feature Scarygirl, starring Sam Neill and Anna Torv. Scarygirl will land on screens in the USA in 2024 after a successful premiere screening at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
He has written on animation and live action including the Figaro Pho series, which won Best Children’s TV on three continents – KidScreen New York, The Asian TV Awards and the Australian Academy of Cinema and TV Awards. He was the lead writer (Australia) for the live action/animation series OH YUCK! with Flying Bark Productions.
Craig’s first produced feature, One Eyed Girl (written with Nick Matthews), won the Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival and was released in cinemas and on Netflix USA/EU/Australia.
TEACHING
Craig’s teaching and supervision experience sits across university performance training and professional practice. He currently teaches film acting at the Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide) and has taught screen acting and screenwriting in tertiary and professional contexts, including Honours – level teaching and production-based training with emerging performers at Flinders University and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA – University of New South Wales).
His pedagogy emphasises practice-led inquiry: studio-based experimentation, reflective methods, and careful attention to the ethics of training environments. Across these settings he focuses on how learning cultures, evaluative structures, and institutional expectations shape performers’ agency, identity formation, and long-term sustainability in creative careers.
This continuity between teaching, creative practice, and research interests supports a research orientation grounded in real training contexts, with methodological rigour and clear relevance to contemporary debates on ethics and wellbeing in performer education.
Craig teaches screenwriting for John Yorke Story, the UK’s leading story education company headed by John Yorke, former head of BBC Drama.
If you’re curious about
- story consultancy
- development processes for your feature or TV project
- teaching and consultation at your school, university, training institution
please get in touch and let’s have a conversation.
craig@craigbehenna.com