Craig Behenna

Craig is a writer, producer, director and creative coach based in Australia.

He develops TV and feature work with production companies and creatives in LA, Europe and Australia.

Craig’s work includes the production draft of Scarygirl, an animated feature based on the creations of designer and graphic novelist Nathan Jurevicius and featuring Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Anna Torv. His other work for animation includes episodes of The New Adventures of Figaro Pho, awarded Best Children’s Television on three continents: KidScreen New York, The Asian TV Awards and the Australian Academy Awards.

He wrote the feature thriller One Eyed Girl with director and writing partner Nick Remy Matthews, which won Austin Film Festival Dark Matters Jury Prize and sold to Netflix in the US, Europe and Australia. He was lead Australian writer on the live-action US/Australian kids’ TV show OH YUCK!

As a creative coach, Craig helps producers, writers, directors and creative professionals bring their work to life with their own voice. His coaching blends creative practice with transpersonal psychology, narrative practice and different forms and methods of coaching and psychology. Craig believes that clients create their most powerful work when they write as experts in their own creative worlds. He also coaches clients from the tech and executive world across South East Asia and the US, guiding conversations about creativity and mental health in the workplace.

Craig trained as an actor and director at Flinders University Drama Centre (Australia), Guildford School of Acting (UK) and iO Chicago. He is Lecturer: Film Acting at the University of Adelaide and has taught screenwriting and acting for schools including Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and Flinders University. He has an MA in Narrative Therapy from the University of Melbourne along with qualifications in transpersonal coaching and psychotherapy.