Zach Cregger

Zachary Michael Cregger (born March 1, 1981) is an American comedian, actor, writer, director and producer. He first came to prominence as one of the three founding members, alongside Trevor Moore and Sam Brown, of the New York City-based comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know. He later starred in the sitcoms Friends with Benefits, Guys with Kids, and Wrecked.

He also starred in the film Miss March, which he co-directed and co-wrote with Moore. In 2022, Cregger wrote and directed the horror film Barbarian, a commercial success that opened to positive critical reviews. Cregger was born in Arlington, Virginia. He performed in various comedy and music groups there before moving to Brooklyn, New Yorkwhere he joined forces with Moore and Sam Brown to start The Whitest Kids U' Know.

He was in high school in an improv troupe called The Nation of Improv. They performed shows at malls and other high school auditoriums. Cregger and his friends formed the WKUK comedy troupe in 2000 while still in college. Later, he met Darren Trumeter while shooting an independent film and asked him to join them. Trumeter became the second of two later additions to the troupe, the first being Timmy Williams.

Cregger and the troupe garnered great success while performing live in New York City at LES music venue Pianos and on the internet. This led to an invitation in 2006 to the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. The troupe won the Best Sketch Group award and attracted the attention of many Hollywood executives. The Whitest Kids U' Know ran for five seasons on FUSE and IFC.

In 2008, Cregger made his first film appearance in Deb Hagan's directorial debut College. He directed his second feature film with Moore, The Civil War on Drugs. It had a limited theatrical release and was ultimately aired during the fifth season of WKUK. Afterwards, he toured with the WKUK and performed in live shows. He has participated in several independent movies.

Cregger joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Friends with Benefits, which began airing on August 5, 2011. He then starred on the NBC sitcom Guys with Kids, which aired for one season in 2012–2013. Cregger next starred in the TBS show Wrecked. Cregger wrote and directed the 2022 horror film Barbarian, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long.

Cregger, along with the surviving members of The Whitest Kids U'Know, crowdfunded the second feature from the troupe, Mars, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, 2024, with encore screenings on June 8 and 15. Cregger is set to direct Weapons, a horror film based on a screenplay also written by him. In 2018, Cregger became engaged to his longtime girlfriend Sara Paxton.

 They married on October 27, 2019. In January 2025, Cregger was featured in a Washington Post article detailing alleged sexual abuse perpetrated by the youth pastor at the prominent Washington DC area church his family attended. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zach Cregger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.