Tanner Beard

Tanner Beard is an actor, director, writer, and producer from Texas. He grew up in Snyder, where he first appeared on a local radio show at six and, at fifteen, premiered a one hour spoof television show at his hometown movie theater. He went on to make independent films and to study film and theater in London and elsewhere in Europe. He earned several acting awards, including Best Actor and Supporting Actor honors, and state recognition at UIL State One Act Play events in Austin in 2002 and 2003. An early feature filmmaking experience came with Grand Champion (2002). In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles to study at the New York Film Academy, finishing in 2004. He founded Silver Sail Entertainment, whose projects included shorts, commercials, music videos, a travel show, a web series, and The Legend of Hell's Gate (2011), a feature he wrote, directed, produced, and acted in.