Career
He wrote the film Lonesome Jim (2005), directed by Steve Buscemi. He wrote and made his directorial debut with Grace Is Gone (2007) starring John Cusack. He next wrote and directed the film The Winning Season (2009), starring Sam Rockwell and Emma Roberts.
Strouse is a native of Goshen, Indiana and was an Master of Fine Arts student at Columbia University for fiction writing.
His film People Places Things was released in 2015.