Jay Craven

Jay Craven is a Vermont film director screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film He often casts from a regular troupe of Vermont actors including Tantoo Cardinal and Rusty DeWees but has also worked with Rip Torn and Kris Kristofferson Craven founded and runs Kingdom County Productions and recently launched Catamount Arts performing arts program New Englands largest independent arts producer and presenter Jay Craven is married to Bess OBrien who is also a cofounder of Kingdom County Productions Craven speaks three languages English Spanish Hungarian in addition to his native Creole Craven attended Boston University for undergraduate studies where he studied and developed a life long friendship with Howard Zinn He later went on to Goddard College He lives in the Northeast Kingdom with his family Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Craven licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia