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Today we’d like to introduce you to Eric Schumacher.

Eric, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I’m an actor and filmmaker. I was born into an acting family. My parents (Joan and Paul Schumacher) began teaching me when I was 6 years old. My dad and I used to recite Shakespeare in Roxbury park in LA every weekend while fencing with plastic rapiers. That led to more extensive formal training in just about every aspect of acting with them and mentor-ship with a number of industry luminaries such as the late Paul Mantee, who is best known for the cult classic film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, a regular role on TV’sCagney and Lacy and a supporting role in The Great Santini and quite a few other great teachers and mentors. Some fairly well known and many fairly unknown but brilliant nonetheless.. I ate it all up loved every minute of it.

I wanted to be the best actor I possibly could. Eventually I studied video/film production formally as well, to better understand how the crew operated. My goal was to further up my game as an actor, but I found I had an aptitude for producing and directing and started to get hired in that capacity as well. I’ve been at both for quite some time. and have been blessed to have performed in or director or produced a number of award winning and, in some cases, nationally publicized projects. I am, for example, one of only a few people to have ever played both Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in nationally publicized productions.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do and why, and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I’m an actor and filmmaker. I love the art of becoming someone else or of guiding a team to see a creative vision come to life. I believe that these arts are important ways to take us to other places, help us to find compassion and common ground with people we’d never otherwise meet and to explore our world and other worlds, both real and imagined, vicariously. A good movie can change the world. I believe that.

What do you know now that you wished you had learned earlier?
I now understand the importance of learning about how business operates, even when you’re in an arts career, and to, as soon as possible, find ways to create steady income through something related to your art. This is an incredibly challenging business and having to pursue your career while tied to a 9-5 type day job is even more difficult. Other than that. I’ve learned that being good to people is both the right way to be but the right way to run an entertainment business. Discipline is critical and striving to be the absolute best you possibly can at your chosen art form. I believe it’s important to seek deeply to understand your motivations for pursuing your art and to never forget that real motivation as you deal with the difficulties of running an artistic career. Look for ways that you can do good through your art.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
Links to a lot of things can be found on my personal website, www.ericschumacherfilm.com which is updated frequently. My wonderful and prolific business partner and fellow filmmaker Don Dehm recently passed away and that has also led to a recent restructure. The business websites are being updated for our multimedia company Seelie Studios, LLC (www.seeliestudios.com) and for Pulp Gamer (www.pulpgamer.com), one of our brands which provides informational and entertaining news for folks interested in table top gaming, analog role-playing games, Etc.

I’m also all-over social media and there are various websites for many of our projects. I love it when people get engaged with us. We love to have a feeling of community between the artists we work with and the folks who enjoy the work. That in fact was one of the things that was most important to Don and we are carrying on that legacy, just as a try to with my acting work.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://ericschumacherfilm.com/
• IMDB: http://www.imdb.me/ericschumacher
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schumacher.eric/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Eric-Schumacher-54210757834/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricSchumacher
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eschumacherfilm/

Image Credit:
Credits are on the photos. 1st photo of me in the forest by Ginger Ferguson. Doc Holliday with Tombstone Rashomon Logo Photo By Mike Rae (C) Tombstonre LTD; ZHon Poster (C) RobEric Media, LLC; As Doc Holliday gambling (c) Tombstone LTD; El Patron the Master photo by R.S. Francis (c) Covert Shadows, LLC; Astronomer’s Crypt Photo by R.S. Francis (c) Hasrosaur Productions. All photos used with permission.

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