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Craig Mazin

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Craig Mazin · Arts & Literature

What

Creator and writer of Chernobyl (2019) and co-creator of The Last of Us; Emmy and BAFTA awards for writing

When

8 April 1971, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Craig Mazin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Creator and writer of Chernobyl (2019) and co-creator of The Last of Us; Emmy and BAFTA awards for writing

How & why

Craig Mazin was born in Brooklyn to Ashkenazi Jewish parents. After years writing film comedy he created, wrote and produced Chernobyl (2019) for HBO, a five-part account of the 1986 reactor disaster built on documentary research and on the cost of official lying; it won the Emmy for outstanding limited series and a BAFTA for his script. He then co-created The Last of Us with Neil Druckmann, the first video-game adaptation to be taken seriously as television drama.

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Source: Wikipedia — Craig Mazin

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Creator and writer of Chernobyl (2019) and co-creator of The Last of Us; Emmy and BAFTA awards for writing

2019

Source: Wikipedia — Craig Mazin