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Steve Barr is a graduate of the BFA professional acting program at the University of Southern California. Soon after graduation, he realized he was an average-looking white guy actor in a town already teeming with average-looking white guy actors, and so he turned his attention to other areas of the entertainment industry. From 1998 through 2007 he worked at NBC Universal in the Labor Relations department, which negotiates and administrates the various guild and union agreements. He resigned in early 2007 when he and co-writer Tina Joellyn Anderson entered into a development deal with Disney for their screenplay Plant Life. He is a founding member of SoCal Film Group, a creative collective of writers, directors, producers, and actors who have taken a "no-permission" attitude toward making their own films. As of early 2007, the group has produced nearly 50 short films, ranging from 1 minute to 30 minutes in length, across the spectrum of genres. SoCal Film Group shorts have been accepted into dozens of film festivals, including the Austin Film Festival (where Steve's film Who's On First? the Movie won the on-line Audience Award), the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the Silver Lake Film Festival, Shriekfest, the Beverly Hills Short Festival, and the Newport Beach Film Festival, as well as on the cable channels AMC and Showtime. Steve was commissioned in 2006 to adapt his screenplay Devil Water (co-written with Danny Grossman) into a comic book series. The first issue of the comic sold three times the typical number for comics of its type, and the screenplay upon which it is based has subsequently been optioned. Steve lives in Glendale with his beautiful wife, Cecilia. A Freemason, in 2007 he is the Master of North Hollywood Lodge. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Barr (II)