Ah Hello, and thank you for clicking on my bio. Here you will read about all my incredible accomplishments that made my mom swoon with pride (and even a few critics). At this point in my career I no longer have to pad my resume with things I did in high school and college to make myself sound seasoned. Let’s begin (when you hear the star chime you’ll know it’s time to turn the page)! In the summer of 2003 I directed my very first feature length film. It was a horror movie I had written called joshua. It was released to DVD in 2006 under the Fangoria label and Hartsharp Ent. We received a bundle of glowing reviews calling the film one of the best indie horrors in years. Rue Morgue Magazine even referred to me as a “dangerously unhinged bastard.” Pretty cool, right?
After exploring my dark side with joshua, I switched gears and went into production on my self-funded experimental love story, Sunday. The idea was to shoot a feature film in three days, with only two actors who have made a pact not to get out of bed all day. Throwing out all conventions, we explored the story through improvisation, a technique that allowed the actors to deliver a very natural and fun performance. Sunday is currently available through our Drexel Box distribution arm (this site), as well as Netflix.
At this point you’ve got to be thinking to yourself, “Jeepers! This guy is living high on the hog!” You are so wrong. Still needing to pay my bills, I was forced to hold on to my job as a receptionist for a management company. Shackled metaphorically to a desk for nine hours a day did a lot of weird things to my soul. Luckily some genius invented the built in web camera! Desperately needing a creative outlet, I started making tiny short films with my lap top while sitting at my desk. My only resources were construction paper, scissors and glue…so that is exactly what all my sets and characters were made from. I was the only human actor in a series I quickly dubbed, The Receptionist. Each week I delivered a completely new short film to the hungry eyes of the internet, and before I knew it, the show was a hit! I was getting hundreds of thousands of views for each flick, and it wasn’t long before Comedy Central contracted me to do The Receptionist for their site.
It was then I got re-bit by the pesky acting bug. Ward Roberts. (read his bio next. It’ll be fun!) decided to cast me in his first feature film, Little Big Top. , as a amateur clown under the dictatorship of the legendary Sid Haig. I spent an entire summer in Peru, Indiana, which is the circus capital of the world. Surrounded by clowns, elephants, ringmasters, tigers, trapeze artists…for an entire summer…awesome. Oh, oh! I also had a small part in a movie called, The Legend of the Sandsquatch. I got decapitated. Looks like I’m back in the acting game.
All that “emoting” in front of the camera is great, but I was itching to make another film. With a seed of an idea, I sat down to write what is now lovingly titled, Lo. My third feature film, Lo is a dramatic love story…with demons! The idea was to contain a single actor to one spot (a pentagram) for the entire film and still show the audience a damn good time. Shot on a shoe-string budgets and a LOT of favors, Lo turned out to be one helluva unique flick. Shot in just five days in the summer of 2007, and completed post in December of 2008, Lo is finally ready to find his home. I also held boom for a spec commercial once.
So there you have it. My distinguished career thus far. I have a lot more stories I want to tell so I really hope I don’t die young. For more information on me, call my mom or harass my friends. So that’s it. Bio done. I hope you enjoyed reading it a hell of a lot more than I enjoyed writing it. Ugh.
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