Background
Strauss-Schulson was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City on June 24, 1980.
Strauss-Schulson was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City on June 24, 1980.
He attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 2003.
He has also directed episodes of the television series The Inbetweeners (2012) and Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (2013). He has one younger sister named Caren. Strauss-Schulson is Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
Following his graduation, he moved to Los Los Angeles
Strauss-Schulson started his career directing short films such as Larceny (1997) and Backlash (1998). He then worked on music videos, which led to 6 months spent in China and Thailand, where he directed the third season of Music Television Whatever Things (2005).
The series became the most popular show on Music Television Asia, with an international audience of over 250 million people. He has directed commercials for the Academy Awards and the Emmy Awards, and clients including Pepsi, Lipton, Mountain Dew, Twix, Nestlé, Microsoft, Old Spice, and Sierra Mist, among others
In 2008, Strauss-Schulson"s short film Mano-a-Mano was selected to screen at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
The following year, he went back to South by Southwest to premiere his short film Big Pussy, which was subsequently screened at the Just Foreign Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada. Strauss-Schulson"s first feature film, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas for New Lincolnshire Cinema and Mandate Pictures, was released by Warner Brothers on November 4, 2011. The film starred Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, and Patton Oswalt, and was met with a positive reaction from film critics.
His sophomore film, the horror comedy The Final Girls for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Groundswell Productions, premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival on March 13, 2015, to positive reviews.
The film stars Taissa Farmiga, Malin Åkerman, Nina Dobrev, Adam DeVine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, and Alexander Ludwig. lieutenant was released on October 9, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Stage 6 Films.
In October 2015, it was reported that Turner Broadcasting System had given a pilot order to a comedy series co-created by Strauss-Schulson and Matt Fogel.