Starry Night Entertainment is a privately financed bicoastal production company
dedicated to bridging the worlds of stage and screen. In just a few short years,
the company, headed by Craig Saavedra and Michael Shulman, has established
itself as a reliable provider of quality entertainment.

Prior to his tenure at Starry Night, Craig served as President of Becker Entertainment
--Australia’s leading independent film and television production, distribution and
exhibition company, with offices in Los Angeles, Sydney, Auckland and Singapore.  

During his tenure, Craig produced and/or supervised the production/development of
numerous film and television projects including ONLY YOU (starring Academy Award
winner Helen Hunt), GROSS MISCONDUCT (Jimmy Smits and Naomi Watts), DECEMBER
BOYS (Daniel Radcliffe) THE REAL MACAW (Jason Robards), AT FIRST SIGHT (Jonathan
Silverman), CLOSER AND CLOSER (Kim Delaney and the hit TV series THE MAN FROM
SNOWY RIVER.   

Craig has directed the feature films RHAPSODY IN BLOOM (Penelope Ann Miller and
Ron Silver) and SHERMAN’S WAY (James Le Gros, Enrico Colantoni, Michael Shulman
and Donna Murphy).  

Most recently, Craig has produced the Off-Broadway New York Premiere of J.T.
Rogers’s controversial and darkly humorous play WHITE PEOPLE at the Atlantic
Theater Company’s Stage 2 Theater.

An Emmy and CableACE Nominee, Michael is best known for his work as an actor as
Claudia Salinger's boyfriend on Fox TV's hit PARTY OF FIVE. Shulman started his career
on stage in John Guare's GARDENIA and quickly went on to appear in another Guare
play, FOUR BABOONS ADORING THE SUN (dir. Sir Peter Hall) at Lincoln Center,
Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS (dir. Jerry Zaks) at Playwrights Horizons, and most
notably two years on Broadway as Gavroche in LES MISERABLES.

Shulman's screen credits include SOMEONE HAD TO BE BENNY (HBO, Emmy nominee),
LAW AND ORDER (NBC), CHICAGO HOPE (CBS), CAN OF WORMS (Disney), THE PERFECT
DAUGHTER (USA), WHOSE DAUGHTER IS SHE? (CBS), and the feature films LITTLE MAN
TATE (dir. Jodie Foster), WIDE AWAKE (dir M. Night Shyamalan), THE PICKLE (dir. Paul
Mazursky) and RHAPSODY IN BLOOM (dir. Craig Saavedra). Shulman was most recently
seen as Sherman in the feature film SHERMAN'S WAY, as Alan in the Off-Broadway
play WHITE PEOPLE and as Assistant District Attorney Max Cavanaugh on NBC's LAW
& ORDER.

A Yale graduate with a major in History of Art, Shulman left collegiate life with a
keen desire to not only act, but also produce. He currently serves on the board of
THE NEW WAVE at the Film Society at Lincoln Center.