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Craig Schlesinger
Creative Director
Anomaly

NEW YORK, USA // Born in New Jersey and now residing in New York, Craig is an award-winning creative director and writer with over 15 years of experience in advertising. He currently serves as the Creative Director on Topgolf, Albertsons and IHG, among other accounts.

Craig attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he first majored in Newspaper Journalism, before pursuing creative writing with a focus on advertising.

He began his career as a writer at Saatchi NY, working on brands such as Tide, General Mills Fruit Snacks, Lenovo and Miller Lite. He has since worked at various agencies in New York, writing for brands like Best Buy, NFL Network, Dicks Sporting Goods, Captain Morgan, Budweiser, among others. He’s been lucky enough to work on a couple of Super Bowl spots, too. Craig has also written short films that have garnered awards in major short film competitions and festivals.

Outside of the office, Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, yelling at the television during Jets and Rangers games, and occasionally watching old wrestling videos from the early 90s, an activity he is definitely 100% not ashamed of. Probably.