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JACK TEAGUE

Jack Teague considers himself fortunate to have BUT HIS ENDURING LIFELONG GOAL HAS
realized many cherished ambitions over his life so BEEN WORKING IN FILMMAKING SINCE HE
far. Veterinary Technician while in the Pre-Vet
Curriculum in College, Environmental Scientist for WAS INTRODUCED TO IT AS AN EXTRA IN
Florida's Public Health Agency, Saltwater Charter A FEATURE FILM WHILE IN COLLEGE
Fishing Captain in the Key West/Lower Keys, and Relocating from the Florida Keys to Alabama's Gulf
along Alabama's Gulf Coast, and Carpenter, from Coast to help attend parental health issues in the mid
working construction since he was a teenager. 2000s turned out to be life changing. By 2012, a
dozen feature films were made over the course of
But his enduring lifelong goal has been working in two years in the Mobile, AL area and Teague worked
filmmaking since he was introduced to it as an extra as featured background in almost each of them. He
in a feature film while in college. From those days also met up with some fledgling filmmakers who
forward, he did everything he could to nurture that needed a screenwriter for their short film projects.
dream while making a living in unrelated fields.

Working together, they made nearly a dozen shorts
Though it's changed dramatically, production in the over the next three years and a spec, multi-episode,
South was sparse in those days so, with ample blue collar auto racing series. His colleagues
literature and writing courses in his college eventually encouraged Teague to get in front of the
curriculum, he gravitated to screenwriting as his camera, so he began acting and found a new affinity.
vehicle. Eventually his writing career expanded to By 2014, he was cast in a few independent feature
nonfiction articles on a wide variety of topics, three films with speaking roles.
published pieces of short fiction and a novella in
Kindle format.