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About Me

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I'm an actor---any questions? ;-) If you're interested in me as a film maker, feel free to check out my resume at www.tadatkinson.com. You can find my reel there, or check it out here on MySpace.
For the rest of you, a little about my history which led me to where I live now. I was born in the Chicago area (North Shore--Wilmette, if you want to be specific). I lived in Geneva, Switzerland for 18 months as a very young child, entering Kindergarten in an international school. I spent my elementary school years in a tiny college town in northwestern Illinois called Mt. Carroll, began middle school in Connecticut and then moved to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where I lived from 1977 through 2004.
My education's a checkered as my life. I squeezed my BA into six years, switching majors from Astrophysics to Accounting to Business Administration and then finally to English. I got my MA in English with a Linguistics minor and had nearly completed a PhD in British Literature with a Composition/Rhetoric minor when I switched career tracks and withdrew my candidacy.
I thought I would be a college professor, but was offered a full-time job at a small private high school as the Director of Drama. My one constant activity in my life has been theatre (I've been acting since age 6), and so it was an offer I could not refuse. When my second divorce came (yes, I've been unsuccessfully married twice), my life was completely destroyed. My sisters in California made me another irrefusable offer, and so out I came to apply my lifelong love and passion in a professional sense.
I've been very fortunate in my acting (I came out here in 2004); one of the projects of which I'm the most proud is My Cousin's Keeper. I worked with the great folks at ADI Effects, which was the greatest thrill I've had out here so far!

My Interests

Acting (go figure!), opera, coin collecting, Classical music, anything medieval or Renaissance, military history, astronomy, role-playing games, science fiction/fantasy, and linguistics.

I'd like to meet:

New friends. I left a very tight circle of close friends to move out here, and I miss that.

Music:

Opera, Classical, Baroque, Renaissance, medieval, and Broadway

Books:

The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, Le Morte d'Arthur, Beowulf, The Wanderer, Dream of the Rood, Gawain and the Green Knight, the Hornblower saga, the Aubrey/Maturin saga, The Lord of the Rings, anything by David Eddings, Harry Potter.

Heroes:

My father, Albert Einstein, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin

My Blog

Reflections

Here I am, 3 days away from my 43rd birthday. Just when I began to depress myself with ponderings about how much I've really accomplished in my goals in life (arguably not a whole lot, materiall...
Posted by Tad on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:41:00 PST

Back home again in Indiana

Well, I've been back for the holidays for a week, now. It's been an incredibly fun, relaxing time with so many friends around. It's also a working vacation--I'm helping Rich Owens out with...
Posted by Tad on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST

A fun, enjoyable week!

The week started out pleasantly enough, as I got to meet in person one of my MySpace friends, Bruce Goldwell. I felt we hit it off pretty well, and there was definitely a sense of synergy and sh...
Posted by Tad on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

Viral video up

Just got my copy of the viral videos I did for the Dog Whisperer DVD. They're also up on YouTube---anyone who would like to check it out, search for "Self-Employed Dog" there. I'm in the P...
Posted by Tad on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:16:00 PST

General busyness

Yesterday I had a major audition. I can't say much about it, since they're keeping things very low profile (signed a confidentiality waiver, even), but it was potentially big. Only 6 actor...
Posted by Tad on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

Tad to play David Berkowitz in It Is Written

I just got notice today that the episode of It Is Written in which I got to portray David Berkowitz (the infamous Son of Sam killer) will air on the 22nd of this month. You really have to go to ...
Posted by Tad on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:00:00 PST

Spent the evening at the Magic Castle

Last night, Sharon and I were invited (along with a few others) to the Magic Castle by magician member (and writer/director/composer/producer) J Lyle Segal. We hit all three of the performance v...
Posted by Tad on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:58:00 PST

And so it goes.....

I resigned my position in the "In Plain Sight" project---there were too many philosophical and artistic differences between myself and the producer for it really to work out. On the other side, howeve...
Posted by Tad on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:49:00 PST

Catching up

I just realized that it's been a while since I updated my blog. I started to shoot on a feature tentatively called "In Plain Sight"--as co-director, of all things! It's truly amazing what ...
Posted by Tad on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

Oh, yeah!!

Well, it's official. I now am fully represented. Interesting process---I know my reel is incredibly good, and when I interviewed with the agent had a copy to hand to her. I heard bac...
Posted by Tad on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:31:00 PST