About me
Name: Richard Lee Grahn'
Born: 06-21
Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
I am a man of passion. I have passion about God, the gospel, people, Film, Acting and Screenwriting
As an ACTOR
Where do I start? I guess as a child I discovered my gift to be a storyteller when I had to think up an excuse on the spot without getting in trouble,
In school, I actually was really good in creative writing was encouraged at an early age to develop my craft. I always enjoyed gathering my nieces and nephews together to put on skits for the family. As I grew older I excelled in theater classes at Liberty Union High School in Brentwood, California and even performed the main stage at Los Medonas College in Pittsburg, California.
LIFE took and drug addiction took me away.. I got clean - in 2000
IN 2005 I took Theater Classes at Mendocino College in Ukiah, CA I also took a few Theater Classes as I studied Cinema at San Francisco State University in 2007-2009
YEARS LATER, around 2017 , I saw a Shakespeare play at the Lake in Lakeport, Ca. The next audition, I tried out and landed the part of BORACHIO in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, the bug had bit me. Soon I acted in a another play and 2018. I was in the cast in Shakespeare's As You Like It as the notorious DUKE FREDERICK . I also acted in a few Indie short films. I have training in Improv, script analysis, and character development
When I'm not in a production, I take online acting classes and practice monologues on my own.
As a DIRECTOR/ SCREENWRITER
While attending SFSU as a Cinema major, I frequently visited a church on Ocean Ave In San Francisco. I interned for their film company it was there where I received many prophetic words of knowledge over my life. Many "Prophets" who were complete strangers, spoke out that I would be very successful as a professional film maker. That fueled me to never give up, believe God, ignore naysayers and to this day I continue to chip away at the goal to share the Kingdom of God to the world through film.
I am an award-winning Director and Screenwriter. I have best short film for "The Perfect Recipe" and "The Dream. My Screenplay "Fish" has earned a Finalist position in one contest and First place in others.
I continue to write and my screenplays have received interest by Independent producers.
QUESTION: Am I a Christian filmmaker/Actor destined to make Christian films for Christian audiences or am I a Christian destined to go into the world and make film for the world that shares God's Kingdom?
That is a question I work on day by day as I journey through this thing called life as I partner together with my Father in Heaven. I write for the world from Heaven. I write for my Christ family from Heaven. Either way, I share heaven to all who come within my path.
Richard is an intelligent person who knows what he wants and has a clear vision. He is always helpful and friendly to all around him and will always lend a supporting voice to those who need it. He is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. - Aaron Taylor - Production Assistant
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky