i started acting in plays and short films after college because, hey, sometimes you find yourself sitting in your 2001 Nissan Xterra outside your girlfriend's house in Auburn, Alabama, stoned as hell, and wondering how the hell you got there, and what you're going to do with your life. and you decide to become an actor. but then you follow a bunch of side-quests along the way, and eventually, you become a copywriter to pay the bills. look, you don't wanna take life advice from me. that's what guys like tony robbins are for. but i will tell you this: i've lived life. and you haven't lived it if you haven't jumped out of a Jeep to avoid a collision with an oncoming Mack Truck on an island construction site, rowed a little boat across a moonlit lake at the bottom of an abandoned quarry to climb a waterfall, or stumbled home in the dark once or twice.

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sound advice short film mockumentary

written, directed, edited & produced by Martin Rees at VCU Brandcenter
dp: Nika Rahini
​starring: Mark McColey, Erica Mendel & Martin Rees

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very dumb content

below is part of what happened when i made a video every day for a month during the summer of 2022. 

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improv & acting in New York City
circa 2015-18

oh yeah. i forgot to mention i had a three-year stint in New York City where i studied Shakespeare, learned improv at UCB Theatre,
​and got myself a freelance acting contract. i was broke, but it was fun. ahh, but for the erstwhile days of youth's last stand,