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Positions Held: Writer/Actor

Day Job: Barista

Before becoming the so-called “Bruce Campbell of Nightowl Pictures,” Andrew Jenner was born in the middle of a blizzard on 16 January 1976 in Ellsworth, Maine, at a hospital with a malfunctioning heating system; to this day he experiences an occasional tendency toward low circulation to his limbs.

After seven-and-a-half years in Maine, nine months in Vermont, and two years on Cape Cod (during which time he unconsciously effaced his native Maine accent), the collapse of the independent commuter-airline business in New England forced Andrew to resettle with his family in the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1986.

Andrew returned to Maine in 1994 to attend Bowdoin College, where he had his first experiences with stage acting and filmmaking. After having initially auditioned as a lark for two roles in a festival of one-acts – winning and subsequently performing both – he quickly became known as a go-to character actor for accents and appeared as a featured player in numerous plays over the next four years, including A.A. Milne’s “Wurzel-Flummery” and an adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial” in which he essayed three roles. He also co-wrote, co- directed, co-camera-operated, acted in and edited (linear, badly) a short-film homage to Andrei Tarkovsky entitled “Flood,” before graduating in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a major-worthy side-concentration in Film Studies and an undeclared minor in Philosophy.

After befriending Nathan Bezner in 2001, Andrew officially joined the Nightowl Pictures team in 2003, performing a full rewrite on a (still) stalled film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Hound.” Since then he has written, rewritten or cowritten “about seven” scripts for Nightowl Pictures, finally getting produced with the 2007 shoot of “Altar”; he also performed the lead role of addled janitor Casper Stipend, and cleaned up the set after wrap. This was followed in 2008 by writing the initial draft of “Antibody”; he played two zombies – one of them a speaking role – in the eventual film.

As a writer, Andrew cites Harlan Ellison, Robert Aickman, Raymond Chandler, M.R. James, Umberto Eco, Fritz Leiber, Jorge Luis Borges, and “every movie I’ve ever seen” as major influences; as an actor he worships Vincent Price, Humphrey Bogart, and George Lucas’s immortal direction to Carrie Fisher to “Act better.”