About
May 11th, 2009
Ah Hello, and thank you for clicking on my bio. Here you will skim through all my incredible accomplishments that made my mom swoon with pride. 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 for purchase…right here on this very site! OMG! It has also recently landed distribution through Synkronized Ent. and shall be landing officially on DVD this October (2010).
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 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! It wasn’t long before Comedy Central contracted me to do The Receptionist for atom.com. When my contracted expired, I returned to YouTube where I continue the series along with a few others.
Somewhere in between all this, Ward Roberts made a film called, Little Big Top and decided to cast me as an 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.
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 comedic 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 budget 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 saw a very successful run on the festival circuit including, Austin, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Boston, Indianapolis…to name a few. Lo was picked up by Synkronized Ent. and is currently available for rent and purchase all over the web!
But it doesn’t end there! In 2008 I was  commissioned to create two new webseries. LILY’S TOMB, a series that follows a dorky young woman and her awkward transformation into a vampire, was bought for four episodes by 60Frames and later purchased by Warner Brothers. BARTOKULAR, the story of a lonely monster who keeps three people prisoner in his cave so they can be best friends, was picked up for two episodes by Comedy Central.
At the end of 2009, bad ass photographer turned cinematographer, Shannon Hourigan, and I began collaboration on a new feature film called THE DEAD INSIDE. This time we went all out with no money, creating a horror musical like no other! The movie explored the dark nature of inspiration, muses, love and lies. It holds the title as my 4th feature film. Expect a festival run of epic proportions in 2011. Mark it down people!
“Travis, stop! Enough with the bio!” No. Sorry But there’s a still just a tad bit more. I just got done playing a lead in a feature because for some reason I’m an actor again. Ward Roberts spins his 2nd feature, DUST UP, and I am starring as a meth addicted screw-up named Herman. A comedy/action film that will leave you in a state of awesome. You can look for that traveling around also next year.
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.
