Biography

Henry Griffin is a writer-director-actor based in New Orleans, LA. His first film as writer-director, the half-hour short Mutiny, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and won awards at many festivals, including South-by-Southwest, the Seattle International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and The Message-to-Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. His second film, Tortured by Joy, was distributed exclusively in a DVD in The Believer Magazine, and has been called one of the greatest short films ever made by SXSW founder Louis Black. He sold his first script to Fox in 1996, and worked as a script doctor for several studios, including rewriting several films with Gore Verbinski. He has also directed numerous other films, documentaries and music videos. As an actor, he appeared in The Way of the Gun (2000), and as a recurring character in the HBO series Treme. His recent work includes a consultant position on Richard Linklater's New Orleans-based film Hitman, and screenwriter of Gore Verbinski's upcoming animated film for Netflix, Cattywumpus. He holds a tenured position in the School of the Arts at the University of New Orleans, where he has taught since 2007.
- IMDb mini biography by: Irene Putnam