Tobe Sexton
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Born | September 6, 1968 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
Years active | Film 1985-present Stage 1982-present |
Spouse(s) | Kelly Farrell 2001 - present |
Tobe Sexton (born September 6, 1968) is an American actor, singer, dancer, producer, director.
Sexton was born in Fort Worth, Texas. After graduating from Putnam City High School in Oklahoma City, he studied acting and directing for theatre as well as film at The California Institute of the Arts from which he earned a BFA. Studied with such notables as Patrick Stewart, Kenneth Branagh, Brian Cox, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Benedetti, Fran Bennett, and Lew Palter. About the same time, he began appearing in several television movies, national commercials, and Feature films, most notably as Teen Freddy in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Has purportedly appeared in over 100 plays, musicals, and experimental dance pieces nationally with his legit directing credits numbering 17.
Although he has remained active as a performer, he struck out as a producer in 1995 by co-founding the Bauhaus Film Group, with Aladdin Pojhan, where he seems to have worked almost exclusively with Zalman King. Sometime around the turn of the century he moved underground to the "Indie film" world and created The TCS or The Technological City State, Productions (as it's apparently called). This companies moto has been to work with and explore emerging cinematic technologies from ground zero through its acceptance into the mainstream.
Affiliates include The International High IQ Society, Mandalay Entertainment, Apogee Magic, the Entertainment Technology Center-USC as well as many several indie production companies and filmmakers.
Most recently, produced the feature The Metrosexual.