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middletown , connecticut 6 july 1975 nate _ - thea_8x10_srgb_72 . jpg nate barlow
 actor , director , producer , screenwriter ,
nate barlow

nate barlow -lrb- born nathanael jackson barlow on july 6 , 1975 -rrb- is an american film director , actor , screenwriter and producer .
born in middletown , connecticut , to two musician and teaching parents , he spent two years as a child in tanzania , where he attended the international school moshi .
he graduated with a bachelor of science in electrical & computer engineering from carnegie mellon university in 1996 , after which he worked as a designer engineer for symbol technologies on long island before moving to los angeles to pursue his filmmaking career .
barlow co-directed , co-wrote and co-starred in `` tales from beyond '' , an anthology feature film starring adam west that won best picture awards at the 2004 shockerfest and 2004 shriekfest film festivals before being distributed by anthem pictures .
prior to `` tales from beyond '' , he directed the interview-based documentary short `` film trix 2002 '' and produced the narrative feature film `` hollywood , pennsylvania '' , which had a live making-of documentary broadcast from the set onto the world wide web .
barlow 's acting work includes `` l.a. twister '' , the lowest-budgeted film ever to premiere at grauman 's chinese theatre , and `` chance '' , the directorial debut of amber benson , as well as commercials .
the actors trade newspaper `` back stage '' profiled barlow as one its actors successfully utilizing such social networking websites as myspace and facebook to further his acting career .
barlow 's screenplay `` random encounters '' recently was purchased by imagination pictures .
the film , directed by boris undorf and starring sean young , michael rady and abby wathen , is currently in post-production .
he is currently adapting a children 's fantasy novel for kerouac films .
