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• As a kid, he liked to dress up in costumes and go to school as Abraham Lincoln, Captain Hook or a superhero.
• Directed his high school's play of Nosferatu.
• In 2001, moved to New York to study at an acting conservatory.
• Started his career in theater productions working as a director and designer.
• His childhood visits to the Plimoth Plantation inspired his first screenplay, The Witch (2015).
• His first film, The Witch (2015), earned ten times more than its budget at the box office.
• Co-wrote the screenplay for his second film, The Lighthouse (2019), with his brother Max.