Graham Sack
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Graham Sack is an award-winning filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of Chronotope Films and the recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Sloan Foundation Episodic Fellowship for The Harvard Computers, a TV series about America's first female astronomers.
Graham previously adapted and directed George Saunders's best-selling novel Lincoln in the Bardo (winner of the Man Booker prize) into an immersive film that was funded and distributed by the New York Times, shortlisted for an Emmy Award for Innovation in Interactive Programming, and called one of the "top 5 must-see virtual reality experiences of the year" by Time Magazine. His screenplay Septillion to One made the Hollywood Blacklist and sold to Madison Wells Media in one of the most competitive spec sales of the year with Mark Romanek attached to direct. His other projects have received support from Google, Samsung, and Felix & Paul Studios and appeared at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, New York Theater Workshop, Sotheby's, Vancouver International Festival, and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. His other screenplays won the Final Draft Big Break Competition and placed in the finals for the Nicholl Fellowship.
Graham began his career acting on Broadway in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and in TV shows such as Law & Order and New York Undercover. He holds a PhD in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Physics from Harvard College. He is on faculty in the Film and Media Program at Johns Hopkins University and is an Andrew J. Mellon Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an alum of New Inc., the New Museum's art, design, and technology incubator, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of Canada, Screen Actors Guild, and Actors Equity Association.
Graham previously adapted and directed George Saunders's best-selling novel Lincoln in the Bardo (winner of the Man Booker prize) into an immersive film that was funded and distributed by the New York Times, shortlisted for an Emmy Award for Innovation in Interactive Programming, and called one of the "top 5 must-see virtual reality experiences of the year" by Time Magazine. His screenplay Septillion to One made the Hollywood Blacklist and sold to Madison Wells Media in one of the most competitive spec sales of the year with Mark Romanek attached to direct. His other projects have received support from Google, Samsung, and Felix & Paul Studios and appeared at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, New York Theater Workshop, Sotheby's, Vancouver International Festival, and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. His other screenplays won the Final Draft Big Break Competition and placed in the finals for the Nicholl Fellowship.
Graham began his career acting on Broadway in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and in TV shows such as Law & Order and New York Undercover. He holds a PhD in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Physics from Harvard College. He is on faculty in the Film and Media Program at Johns Hopkins University and is an Andrew J. Mellon Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an alum of New Inc., the New Museum's art, design, and technology incubator, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of Canada, Screen Actors Guild, and Actors Equity Association.
