User:Paulcollum

Paul Collum is an actor/comedian originally from Texas but living in the Los Angeles area now since 2004. He started out doing a Shakespeare video in high school but got screwed on the amount of screen time he got. Not all of shakespeares roles have alot of lines to them. In 1998 he did a video for the University of Phoenix called "Captain Management." His over the top performance got the attention of local classmates and the instructor in class. He recieved an A for this performance, but was asked to "tone it down" during the shoot, "you can't turn down the volume on genius!" replied Paul.

He has worked a few jobs, some longer than others, he once hit on the manager's daughter at Brookshire Bros. on the tampon isle in high school. It was an awkward experience but it was a shaping experience as well. Also he masturbated to milf's in the milk cooler from time to time. Again another shaping experience. He was in the Air Force from 1993 to 1999, so this was a pre 911 military, he got goot at ping pong and writing down his ideas. Also he was a regular at local Honky Tonk's in Albuquerque NM. It was then that he got his first ideas about being in the entertainment business, mainly in rebellion of the stupid military rules that were being forced on him on a daily basis.

After the Air Force he moved back to Texas and tried to live back home with his parents, his parents tried to turn him into a slave at their local convenience store so he split. He did some time in Dallas for awhile working on rich people's houses doing home theatre stuff. He stepped through a psychiatrists attic and was fired soon after that. At 6'3 Paul isn't very "attic friendly."

He was offered a job in Austin Texas working at Applied Materials so he took in and started in the year 2000. He had a trip to Taiwan during this time which opened up his world and expanded his imagination about what was possible in life. He got laid off in 2001 after the dot com bust. He kept in touch with many friends from there and tried to get a show going on public access in 2003 to overwhelming failure. The show on Austin Public Access was an exercise in failure.

He worked another job at a miltiary contractor during this time but got tired of the place an left one day just like Office Space style. He went to Austin Community College from 2003 to 2004 and studied Music Business. He took an acting class that changed his life during this time. He became aware of his self as not just a person but a performer. He also took some classes at the State Theatre of Austin under the teaching of Gabriele Folse. He got bit with the acting bug and moved to Los Angeles in the Fall of 2004.

While in Los Angeles he started taking classes at the Groundlings and learning comedy. He tried out for the professional program but was denied access. He never went back to that place again. After doing extra work and a few crappy commercial audtitions in 2005 he had a moment that changed his life forever. In April of 2006 he went to a little known theatre in LA at the time called the Upright Citizens Brigade. It was there that he saw all the things happen on stage that were already happening in his mind. He became a regular fan of the theatre for 3 years after that. During this time he took Improv classes and started doing standup, and writing his ideas down at home, plotting his future. At the moment he saw Asssscat for the first time he knew he wanted to be a comedian and learn Improv and be a performer.

But tragedy struck in 2009 when he was diagnosed with a Staff Infection, it went untreated for many months with a misdiagnosis so Paul though he was going to die during this time. He got a breakthrough when his mom took the lab results to a local pharmacists in Texas and found out he was taking the wrong medication. After getting the right medication his health started to improve and it was during this time that he had a vision for his future as a comedian and actor. Sean Conroy gave his permission to "be himself" during an improv class in 2009. After this revelation he concieved multiple characters, pilots, shows, and movies during this time that are in development as we speak.

One thing Paul has held onto during his lifetime are his own ideas, and he has been religious in documenting them. He's now in the process of developing them into standup, characters, and shows at the theatre as we speak. What will come of Paul???? Whatever he puts the time into will happen for him.