BIOGRAPHY: MEREDITH CRUSE

Meredith Cruse is the president, co-founder and majority owner of Frame Productions. She is responsible for producing all of the company's projects, beginning with development and budgeting. Meredith and co-founder Dan Zukowski are co-creative directors on every one of our projects, and Meredith is the director for the majority of our corporate productions.

She has produced and directed corporate videos for Verizon Wireless, Honda, Mitsubishi, Coors, GCI Global, and Littler Mendelson among many others. Meredith has also produced commercials for Ralphs, Food4Less, Vibram USA, ditech.com and the San Diego Zoo. Her entertainment industry background serves her well, as she understands deadlines, budgets and working with talent.

Prior to Frame Productions, Meredith was an independent producer who produced several independent feature films including the Sundance Film Festival entry, “I Love You…Don’t Touch Me.” Her previous work experience focused on development of feature films and television for a number of well-known Hollywood production companies. At Todman-Simon Productions, she was involved in the development of the feature films “Wild Wild West,” “X-Men,” “Trust Me” and “The In-Laws.”

While at Morgan Creek, an independent studio with a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Studios, she became the first woman promoted to a development executive within the company. During her tenure, Meredith was involved in the development and production of "Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls," "Diabolique," "Bad Moon," "Wild America," "Incognito," "Major League III: Back To The Minors," "Wrongfully Accused," the animated film "The King & I," "Soldier" and "Chill Factor." She also supervised the development and production of the animated television series, "Ace Ventura." Meredith then joined Platinum Studios as Director of Development and ran this independent production company's development department with a first look deal with Dimension Films, a division of Miramax.