Trey Edward Shults

Shults is, to me, the real thing. The Houstonian announced himself with Krisha, a micro-budget film shot with his own family, and then refused to coast. The strangled dread of It Comes at Night and the wrenching collapse of a family in Waves both reach past mere genre thrills toward something rawly human. As a director who also writes, produces, and edits, he embodies the all-in auteur whose fingerprints give a film its soul. With Hurry Up Tomorrow arriving in 2025, I keep finding myself impatient for whatever he does next. Few young American filmmakers excite my curiosity as consistently as he does.

Trey Edward Shults (born October 6, 1988) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is best known as the director and writer of the drama Krisha (2015), the psychological horror film It Comes at Night (2017), the drama Waves (2019), and the thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025).

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Name (English)

Trey Edward Shults

Name (Japanese)

トレイ・エドワード・シャルツ

Reading

とれい・えどわーど・しゃるつ

Born

October 6, 1988 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

film producer / actor / screenwriter / film director / film editor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84

Tags

• Texas
• film producer
• actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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