CRK

Clayton Rees Karush (CRK) has been involved in the arts his entire life. Early on artistic parents introduced music, dance, and performance to him continuing to this day. His mother Michelle Berne taught in dance/choreography at NYU and his father Larry Karush is a jazz pianist, specializing in world rhythms. This has been instrumental in inspiring Clayton as an artist.

As an adolescent he became interested in acting, performing in school plays and summer stock productions. After being accepted into the Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts, and up into college, he continued to study and act on the stage.  In college he gravitated to the basis of all performance; production and the written word, designing his own major, “Critical Communications” received from the California State University of Northridge in 2007. Before Northridge and studying Mass Communications at Dean College in Massachusetts, he had his own college radio show and learned hands on in a fully operational television studio. Here he began to learn the art of information dissemination. Later, at Humboldt State University, he became the Public Relations Coordinator for the Associated Student Government using the avenues of communication to relay information to the student body.

Working on and off throughout college at amazing jobs in the arts, Clayton Karush was able to incorporate all facets of art production into his understanding of the art world.  As an assistant stage manager for Community Arts Resources he helped oversee a bi-weekly Family Festival at the Getty Center. Then as a stage manager for the 18th Street Arts Complex, he oversaw both artist and stage for their annual “Oktoberfest”. Throughout this time and presently, he works closely with his mother at her non-profit community based arts organization, the Center for Celebration Arts.
Here he has helped produce community events that include;

2008  Onsite Producer, Grand Opening Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center.
2008  Onsite Producer, 32nd annual Simon odia Watts Towers Jazz Festival.
2008  Onsite Producer, 27th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival.
2007  Production Assistant on Ellen Degeneres’ new show promo.
2007  Production Assistant credit on the independent film 90404
2006  City of Venice Centennial Celebration
2005  Dias de Los Meurtos Project, Santa Monica, Ca
2004: Very Special Arts Festival, Los Angeles Music Center
2003: Grand Opening Procession, Santa Monica Festival
1997: Grand Opening of the Getty Center
1997: July 4th Holiday Stroll in the Park, City of Santa Monica
1996: Grand Opening Skirball Center for Jewish Culture & Heritage
1993–1996: Los Angeles International Festival of Masks Parade

Since November of ’07 Clayton has written ten screenplays with his writing mentor         Keith Antar Mason, a Harvard Book Award winner and begun production on the         Ultimate Underground Series.

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