A ham. A beef stew. A survivor of childhood, narrowly escaping the perils of life. I'm a storyteller at heart who has managed to navigate my "creative ADHD" brain by dipping all ten toes into various forms of art and expression. I'm a
Writer,
Director,
Actor,
and
Special Effects Make-up Artist
(I also enjoy ceramics)
A lifelong cineast, Barney started directing small theater before taking the leap into short films and then, ultimately, feature length motion pictures. Barney like the way Martin Scorsese refers to films as "Pictures," so he's bringing it back.
His feature length directorial debut,
is available now on Amazon as
A lifelong cineast, Barney started directing small theater before taking the leap into short films and then, ultimately, feature length motion pictures. Barney like the way Martin Scorsese refers to films as "Pictures," so he's bringing it back.
His feature length directorial debut,
is available now on Amazon as well as other streaming platforms. Give it a watch, why don't ya? It won't cost ya nuthin'
"I make monsters and dead people."
It's in the air that he breathes.
Barney was honored with an Academy Award for his work on Star Trek ('09) and turned Tom Cruise into the abusive studio exec, Les Grossman, for Tropic Thunder. Other career highlights include the TV shows GRIMM and
Who is America starring Sacha Baron Cohen as 6 differe
"I make monsters and dead people."
It's in the air that he breathes.
Barney was honored with an Academy Award for his work on Star Trek ('09) and turned Tom Cruise into the abusive studio exec, Les Grossman, for Tropic Thunder. Other career highlights include the TV shows GRIMM and
Who is America starring Sacha Baron Cohen as 6 different people. He also applied his make-up as "45" in
It's a thing that never leaves you, the desire to perform. As a kid we put on stunt shows for our parents and dreamed of making movies. At 14 I took my first acting class and impressed my teacher. Later I joined The Actor's Gang and Theater of N.O.T.E. where i wrote, produced, directed and acted for two years.
But it was studying with the
It's a thing that never leaves you, the desire to perform. As a kid we put on stunt shows for our parents and dreamed of making movies. At 14 I took my first acting class and impressed my teacher. Later I joined The Actor's Gang and Theater of N.O.T.E. where i wrote, produced, directed and acted for two years.
But it was studying with the great Sanford Meisner that made me start to understand what acting was all about
It all began with one-act plays that I was too terrified to have produced. Then a character named Arnie stuck in my head and I wrote a mock-documentary about him.
Boy, was I hooked?!
I've completed nearly two dozen screenplays to date . One feature and a couple shorts have been produced.
I'm also working on a novel.
(List available on request)
In the 7th grade I took ceramics and was granted a summer class at Cal State Northridge. I remember my mother driving me to the school, some seven or eight miles away, every day but I could not tell you what I made back then.
During the pandemic shut down I bought a potters wheel and revitalized my enjoyment for the art. I'll admit my whe
In the 7th grade I took ceramics and was granted a summer class at Cal State Northridge. I remember my mother driving me to the school, some seven or eight miles away, every day but I could not tell you what I made back then.
During the pandemic shut down I bought a potters wheel and revitalized my enjoyment for the art. I'll admit my wheel skills are still somewhat under developed but I am having a lot of fun sculpting and fabricating animals and human organs
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