Jeff Garretson
Education:
BS, UIUC Mechanical Engineering
Years of apprenticeship on Grandpa Bud’s Farm

Theater Training:
The Second City Conservatory (currently)
TVI Actor’s Studio (currently)
The Annoyance
Second City Training Program 2004-5
Metropolis School of the Performing Arts
Mrs. Setchell’s Intensive Chorus Program
Class Clown & Leading Man for Mrs. Rozak, Mrs. Warfield, & Mrs. Anderson

Life Motto: “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger”
Personal Heroes: Bill Murray, Gerald L. & Carole Garretson
Favorite drink: Capt. & Diet Dr. Pepper
Favorite film: Beautiful Girls
Favorite sport: NFL BABY!!
Least Favorite Person: Jim Rome
Most appreciated art: Carney

Strengths:
• Knowing that if I don’t succeed in the entertainment industry, I’m doomed to a life of engineering
  and normalcy
• Ability to chase average women off after one date (sometimes before)
• The realization that things could always be worse

Weaknesses:
• Wholesome Catholic women with moral upbringing, ripe for my corruption
• Afternoon and early evening naptime
• Fantasy football coaching skills

Things that top my TO DO list:
• Secure a role on a sitcom, finally employ my insatiable addiction to sex, get hooked on a drug
  (preferably something groundbreaking), develop anorexia, star in my own E! True Hollywood
  Story, do a season on the Surreal Life, set myself on fire, and travel the country as a motivational
   speaker.
• Finish my first screenplay
• Illustrate my children’s book
• Become independently wealthy
• Activate restraining order on Natalie Portman
• Continue pushing the limits of my candle burning abilities

Jobs & Hobbies:
• Writing Screenplays
• Pushing the limits of my candle burning abilities
• Selling spray nozzles & spray nozzle accessories which have been processed and bought.

See Jeff as John Ellison in the upcoming short Film, Tree by Drop Shadow Productions. Or in one of the many videos by his sketch group, Baron Von Awesome.

Or for most recent updates, download a clickable resume from the Explore Talent Webpage:
www.jeffgarretson.exploretalent.com

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