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Crew Cuts

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New York based post-production company based in New York City1

Crew Cuts is a New York-based full service post-production company founded in 1986 by Chuck Willis, Clayton Hemmert, and Steve Kraftsow. Sherri Margulies joined as a partner in 1989. Crew Cuts specializes in online and offline editing, visual effects, 3D and motion graphics, audio and sound design, finishing, and aspects of production, for the commercials, shorts, features, and web distribution.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Crew Cuts is a New York-based full service post-production company founded in 1986 by Chuck Willis, Clayton Hemmert, and Steve Kraftsow. Sherri Margulies joined as a partner in 1989. Crew Cuts specializes in online and offline editing, visual effects, 3D and motion graphics, audio and sound design, finishing, and aspects of production, for the commercials, shorts, features, and web distribution. The original Crew Cuts was housed in one floor of a townhouse on East 47th Street. Within seven years Crew Cuts had taken over the entire townhouse and moved to its current location, the former New Yorker magazine offices, on the top floor of 28 West 44th Street. The 44th Street space was a showpiece created by architect Peter Wormser with 360-degree views of mid-town Manhattan including 30 Rockefeller Plaza. At one time the editors of Crew Cuts scored Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lions at Cannes in one year. In that same year Pepsi "Boy In The Bottle" edited by Chuck Wilis, was the number 1 rated Super Bowl commercial of all time. In 1997 Crew Cuts editor Sherri Margulies brought home a Grammy for the Beatles Free as a Bird Video and the first ever Emmy for a TV commercial, HBO Chimps, both directed by Joe Pytka. In 2003 Willis's Visa "Sheens" received an Emmy nomination for Best Commercial. At the height of its success, Crew Cuts had offices in New York City, Santa Monica, and San Francisco with an additional award-winning effects company called Quietman helmed by Johnny Semerad and a sound studio called Buzz with partner Mike Marinelli. Crew Cuts clients include: Chase, Comcast, GE, Gillette, HBO, Pepsi, SAP AG, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon. Crew Cuts’ work has gained recognition ranging from the Clio Awards to the Grammy Awards.2

Timeline

  1. 1986Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$1.2M 2020–2021
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2021: $1.2M in all. PPP loans $1.2M.$0$200K$400K$600K$800K2020 · PPP loans: $548.0K20202021 · PPP loans: $602.6K2021
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2021$602.6K$602.6K
2020$548.0K$548.0K

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA4. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 28, 2020$548.0K PPP loan (first draw) from Signature Bank4To CREW CUTS INC, New York NY; $546.2K forgiven Feb 12, 2021
  2. Jan 26, 2021$602.6K PPP loan (second draw) from Signature Bank4To CREW CUTS INC, New York NY; $604.8K forgiven Jun 15, 2021

Sources

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