Seth Kozak

Seth is a formally-educated filmmaker with wide-ranging production experience. He is the recipient of several renowned industry awards, including two American Movie Awards for screenwriting. He is best known for his film and television roles in Dying of the Light (2014) Evil Stepmothers (2016) and Who Killed Jane Doe? (2016) Seth is the oldest of four, reared in an Air Force family that lived in Europe throughout the last decade of the Cold War. He attended two years of High School at Lakenheath, England and two years at Wiesbaden, West Germany, where he graduated in 1990. After High School, he ventured into the US Navy and amassed over 1,700 hours as an Air Crewman on Lockheed P-3 Orion "Sub Hunters." Following five years of the Navy, he enrolled in business studies at Southern Illinois University, to pursue a dream in entrepreneurship that was directly inspired by watching Newhart (1982) in his youth. After a year of business studies, he saw an interview with filmmaker Edward Burns on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) that sparked his enthusiasm for filmmaking and led him to change his major to Film within 12 hours. In his film studies, Seth concentrated on production and screenwriting. He became an advanced protégé of screenwriter Jean Stawarz and produced the biographical (16mm) film "Positive Altitude," which was released as an episode segment on PBS's Rough Cuts (1997), and aired twice in 1999. Following graduation, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army and went on to serve numerous worldwide assignments as both an Armor Officer and as one of the US Army's elite Foreign Area Officers (FAO). His assignments include multiple combat tours, command tours, operational deployments, US embassies, and the Pentagon.