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Jared Lee Masters (born August 7, 1986 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American movie director, screenwriter, actor, producer, and recording artist. His father's stint in the Army kept the family of 6 moving to various cities across the globe (including Kansas City, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Germany). Masters was initially home-schooled by his mother, but then later attended a mix of public and private schools in Richmond, Virginia. His interest in filmmaking began at age 14 when he directed and edited skateboarding videos, then selling the VHS tapes to fellow students for five dollars. At 15, he began teaching himself piano, and later produced several pop and acid jazz albums under pseudonym J. Riddles, ultimately providing original scores for some of his films. In 2007 he joined the Screen Actors Guild and moved to New York, where he landed a few minor roles in feature films and television, and directed several documentaries and short subjects, including Meet the Freaks at Dreamland Coney Island (2010) and The Umbrella (2010). In 2010 Masters moved to Venice Beach and made his first full-length feature, Climb It, Tarzan! (2011), one of the rare films to feature an all-female cast. It was immediately followed with 8 Reels of Sewage (2012). Some of Masters' trademarks: retro themes, female empowerment, fetishism, burlesque as an art form, exploitation, voyeurism, society's underbelly, carnival and circus themes, and homages to B movies of the 1960s. He also wrote and directed the horror film Slink (2013) and the slasher-comedy Teachers' Day (2013). He lives in Hollywood, California.
At 15, he had a story optioned for TV series Las Vegas, which sparked local media coverage. However, he was too young to legally submit a story, so his father pretended to be the actual writer for the TV interview.Rides unicycle and juggles.Was expelled his freshman year of high school for streaking.Has written over a dozen screenplays, in various genres.Son of Actor/Magician Randy Masters.Self-taught Beethoven at an early age.Spent the first year of his life in Frankfurt, Germany.