Craig Appelbaum is a lawyer and former gallery owner who moonlights as a stand up comic. He is director of litigation consulting at Adams and Martin Group in Los Angeles. Appelbaum formerly founded a cutting edge gallery in Washington DC that merged design and art. Both he and his gallery have been written about in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Details Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and Elle Decor among others. In 2015, Art & Architecture, a leading publication for art collectors, named Appelbaum as one of the art world's "Power Innovators" and one of 100 people changing the art world landscape.

As a writer, Craig has contributed to the LA Blade, the city's largest LGBT weekly, developed numerous television pilots and currently working on an avant garde solo show which blends his performance and gallery background.

His latest work Bloom about a young closeted boy growing up in Ohio examines a surrealist world and Dark Money a one hour drama which concerns itself with a gallery in Washington DC both pull from his early age obsession with Old Hollywood and the macabre including All About Eve and the originally titled “3000” now known as Pretty Woman, and all things Hitchcock. Craig lives in West Hollywood where he performs regularly.