Tara L. Craig, President

Tara L. Craig is the founder and president of The Squid Farm, which launched in 2017. The production company focuses on the creation of genre motion pictures, TV series and commercials.  

Under the Squid Farm banner, Craig just finished producing Sheroes for Paramount. The action thriller stars Sasha Luss, Isabelle Fuhrman, Skai Jackson and Wallis Day and is directed by Jordan Gertner (The Virgin Suicides, Spring Breakers). She also recently produced the Neil LaBute drama Out of the Blue starring Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson and Hank Azaria.  

Past movies from the Squid Farm catalog include the feature comedy Guest House (#1 on Amazon Prime - Sept. 2020) and the sci-fi thriller 3022 (Top 10 on Netflix - March 2020). The first Squid Farm production, the psychological horror feature Shook sold to Shudder and was released in February 2021.  She is currently in pre-production on the thriller Death Spiral, directed by Simon Berry.

In 2018, Craig also served as Executive Producer on the comedy feature Friendsgiving (released theatrically and on Amazon Prime in October 2020), produced by Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Productions and starring Malin Akerman. She also produced commercials for the National Basketball Association, Goodyear and Buffalo Wild Wings.  

Before launching The Squid Farm, Craig produced the features Mad Families, No Way Jose, the 2013 Tribeca film Trust Me, Balls to the Wall, and April Fool’s Day.  

Craig graduated cum laude at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and completed a screenwriting program at University of London. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America. Craig is also an adjunct professor at the Art Center College of Design and has guest lectured at UCLA and USC.