Acting
Derek Long
Acting
Biography
Derek is a Los Angeles-based actor/instructor/director, who’s accomplishments span stage, film, and voiceover. Growing up in farmland Wisconsin, Derek was interested in theatre at an early age, and has explored it’s various forms of expression ever since. He majored in theatre at UW-Whitewater, a small college, which gave him a chance to play many lead roles in productions on the stage, including CABARET, OEDIPUS, and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. After college, he continued his stage experience in Chicago theatres, and started exploring roles in film projects. He continued exploring film in Los Angeles, where he has landed roles in many independent films such as SOCKET, 3-DAY WEEKEND, and MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY, which won him The People’s Choice Award at San Diego Film Fest. He continues to take on stage roles in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Long Beach, including such productions as HAMLET, CLOUD 9, and CATCHING THE BUTCHER. He also serves as a panel judge for submissions to the national “PANNDORA’S BOX Annual New Works Festival” in Southern California. Derek has recently started work as a director and an acting instructor, teaching classes in both Santa Monica and Long Beach, California. Derek believes in a global philosophy about theatre: staying open to opportunity and community, wherever the location is. Derek is happily married with two cats and a dog, and when he’s not working, you’ll find him in the garden pulling weeds and watching things grow.
Feature Films (12)
Ollie, Yeats, and Remy are three unlikely friends who found each other while searching for success, a new start, love, and a place to call home in New York City in 2019.
From Here to Hell's Kitchen
The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?
Make the Yuletide Gay
Dr. Bill Matthews is struck by lighting. While recovering at the hospital where he works, he begins an intimate relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy, who invites Bill to join a strange group of lightning survivors.
Socket
Long-term couple Simon and Jason, along with daddy-ish Cooper and his boy du jour, escape to a mountain cabin for a three-day weekend away from their hectic city lives. Looking to spice up this long-standing tradition, they add a special twist to this years retreat - each of them must invite one attractive single friend to their mountain getaway.
3-Day Weekend
A recently outed soap opera actor crosses paths with a recently divorced gay marriage activist, forcing them to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community.
Role/Play
After a devastating biological disaster kills twelve million people, a hazmat team searches the contaminated wasteland for survivors. But what they find is a vicious predator hungry for human flesh.
Bio-Dead
On the morning of his annual gay pride party, Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who had disowned him over 20 years ago. Now suffering from Alzheimer's dementia, the father gets a crash course in all things gay from Stephen's eclectic mix of friends. Seeds of their turbulent relationship come to light as does hope that the two can move past their fears, accept and forgive one another.
Pride
Jonathan Cold returns, this time he goes Undercover to stop a group of Terrorists before they bomb Los Angeles.
Black Dawn
In this sequel to the ever-so-campy, wanna-be gay soft porn, Daydream Obsession, the naked-body-obsessed Clayton (Joseph Dain), whose previous demented daydreams turned to kidnapping and bondage nearly destroyed his friendship in the last film with his straight roommate Brian, now turns his fixated attentions upon his boyfriend Luke, who he suspects is cheating on him. Will the relationship survive Clayton's delusional fantasies? Written by Joe Fowler
Daydream Obsession 2: Infidelities
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.
Soul to Keep
Kyle Carson is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, also known as DID. He despises his community after doing a background search on everyone who he believes has committed a crime without punishment. When one of his multiple personalities, Jonah, comes forth; he trains Kyle to kill and not be seen. Detective Amon Barracks leads the charge
The Crooked Mind
Sometimes, we allow our fear to consume us and we make choices based on the fear. For Bailey, that decision is one she cannot come back from. Afraid to come out to her family, she takes her own life, leaving her girlfriend, Sam devastated, desperately trying to hold on to their love.