Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Graham Sack is an award-winning screenwriter, director, academic, and performer whose work explores the intersection of narrative fiction, emerging technology, and scientific discovery. He is the Founder of Chronotope Films, an immersive media studio, and is the inaugural Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also on faculty in Immersive Storytelling & Emerging Technologies at the Film & Media Graduate Program. He received the 2021 Sundance Institute / Sloan Episodic Fellowship for The Harvard Computers and was commissioned by Academy Award nominee Alexander Rodnyansky to adapt the memoir Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein into a limited series starring Joel Kinnaman. His screenplay, Septillion to One made the Hollywood Blacklist and sold to Madison Wells Media with Mark Romanek attached to direct. Graham adapted and directed George Saunders’ novel Lincoln in the Bardo into an immersive film distributed by New York Times VR that was shortlisted for an Interactive Emmy Award. His other projects were supported by Google, Samsung, Felix & Paul Studios, and New Inc (the New Museum Art + Techn incubator) and appeared at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, New York Theater Workshop, VIFF, CCCB, and Sotheby’s. Graham began his career as a child actor on Broadway and holds a BA from Harvard College, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from Columbia University. He was previously a Visiting Scholar in Data Poetics at University of Notre Dame and a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the WGA, WGC, SAG, and AEA and is represented by Stuart Manashil.
