Krige began working as a writer at the age of sixteen for Grundy Television.
Krige attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School with Dion Beebe, Rowan Woods, Samantha Lang, Peter Duncan, and Robert Connolly.
It received the Golden Hugo for Best Student Drama at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1993.
He continued his early successes by writing and directing (and even starring in some of) the short films, Our Feral Friends (1994), Fuckwit (1994), and Happily Ever After (1996).
"[1] Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde fame is the main vocalist on the score to West.