Dave McClain On How He Started His Acting Career, Tips For Creatives, and More!

8Mill Productions

Dave McClain bio: Dave McClain is an award-winning actor, experienced voice-over artist, published writer and rising cinematographer and filmmaker living in the Houston area. Dave has worked all over eastern and central Texas and has acted in several dozen screen projects, as a character actor or as the lead or co-lead, in feature films, award-winning short films, commercials, industrials, TV shows, webisodes and music videos since he began acting professionally in July 2016. Dave also has extensive theater experience. He has acted in plays in several states and Europe, performed at the AACT National Theater Festival and he has written, directed and produced a variety of theatrical and video productions.

Dave was born and raised in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, as the oldest of six children and he raised two children, William & Savannah. Dave graduated Magna Cum Laude from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and was a high school history teacher in Chesapeake, Virginia for seven years. He then served for 20 years in the U.S. Army as a broadcast journalist and public affairs soldier/supervisor, training and serving throughout the U.S. and in Europe and deploying to Iraq, Jordan and Haiti. In late 2015, Dave “retired” to the suburbs of Houston with his wife, Elizabeth, and devoted himself to a career in the arts. Dave’s other interests include movies, trivia, politics, sports, photography and travel.

For business inquiries, email me at [e-mail]

Houston Film Industry Meetup Group- http://meetu.ps/c/1G1q/vwbcl/f

My social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/8millproductions/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evan.williams.33483903

Youtube Channels: (emannfly77- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE8VqFrieZkwI20ZXp6WGqA?view_as=subscriber) and Spiritual Intellectual 777 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwIJ28gh_SLSWC-GJjiMZ4A?view_as=subscriber

Snapchat: @ps4_isawesome

How to get in contact with Dave McClain:

His Website: https://www.davepro.info/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dave.mcclain.754

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleveman66/?hl=en

The resources he mentioned in the episode:

Acting coaches:

Brian Thornton's Clear Performance Academy:

https://www.facebook.com/ClearPerformanceActingAcademy/

Price Hall's The Natural Act:

https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalact/

Photographers:

Chris Gillett:

https://liketherazor.com/

Steve McCoy and Kim Davis (photographer - make-up artist team):

https://www.facebook.com/KimberlyDavismakeupartist/

Agent:

https://www.boysentalent.com/

Web Designer:

https://www.facebook.com/iamjonic/

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