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| JEFF HARMS |
| 850 N California |
| Chicago IL 60622 |
| jeffharms2000@yahoo.com |
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| Height 5'11 |
| Weight: 165 |
| Eyes: Hazel |
| Hair: Brown |
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Jeff Harms jeff@jeffharms.net
850 N. California Ave Chicago, IL 60622 (630) 205-0768
EDUCATION
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004)
Post Baccalaureate Brandeis University (2001)
BFA University of Washington (1996)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2007 Catwalk Residency, Catskils NY
2006 Community Arts Assistance Program grant award (Music), Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2005 Community Arts Assistance Program grant award (Performance), Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2002 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (Visual Art)
2001 Brandeis Festival of the Arts grant (Sculpture)
1999 Belleview Sculpture Biennial honorarium
1996 University of Washington Painting Scholarship
FILM
As Big a Thing as the Ocean (Feature-Length) Lead Actor, Producer, and Original Music, Four Birds Pictures 2007
Filmed on-location over 2 months in bars, hotels, and roadsides throughout New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Marfa and Las
Vegas, ABTO tells the story of a guy who loses everything in a hurricane. Thinking he has learned a valuable lesson, he sets
out optimistically to find fame and fortune on the road. On his exodus from New Orleans, he meets a too-young Darlene. He
falls in love and thinks he has it made. But his newfound love and confidence are more than he can handle. This is the story
of his breakdown. You can see the trailer at www.robotmachinegun.com/ocean_trailer.mov
The Objects of Living (Short) Co-writer, Co-director, Music, Co-lead, w/Brian Torrey Scott. Catwalk Residency 2007
During a two-week residency I collaborated with Brian Torrey Scott. We enacted archetypal aspects of life: comradery,
competition, relationship and religious ceremony. Four different painting-like still shots framed the narrative. I wrote the
score on guitar and transposed it to play on the pump organ they have at Catwalk.
The Bite (Animated Short) Writer, Director, Animator, Sound Design, VO, Screened 4/19 Chicago Film Brigade 2007
Like Don Quixote attacked the windmills to defend Rosenante, this man tries to take down the forces threatening the one he
loves. I drew the frames with a mouse on my old PC, and follied the sound and voice over in my apartment.
The Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (Short) w/Brian Getnick & Noe Kidder, Lead Actor, VO, Puppeteer, Belgium May 08 2007
Video and a live performance involving actors and a large puppet-like costume, I played a chandelere (personified) in love
with a potted palm, and a wild boar. I will be going to Belgium in May to perform live as a companion to the video..
Pitch and Tone (Feature-Length) Supporting Role, Post-Production sound and PR Four Birds Pictures 2006
I played a small part in this feature length film, but it sparked the creation of ABTO and Four Birds Pictures of which I am a
co-founder.
SOUND
The Myth of Heroics Producer Emmett Kelly, 2007
Full-length album of original songs. Guitar, Vocals, Layout art and Design. To be released on DRP Records this year.
You can hear my songs at www.jeffharms.net under music, or at www.myspace.com/jeffharms
2007 MusicTour Solo National Tour, 2007
Thirteen cities over two months. Touring solo in TX, CO, CA, OR, WA
2006 MusicTour National Tour w/Jason Webley, 2006
Seventeen cities in eighteen days. Touring as an opening solo musician for Jason Webley in IL, IN, MI,TX, IA, CO, UT, ID
Big Amazing Songs Experimental Sound Studio, Producer Spencer Matern, 2005
Full-length album of original Songs. Guitar, Vocals. Released on Naivete Records
Captain Underpants Captain Underpants Website, Producer Dav Pilkey, 2006
Three original children’s songs for the popular kid’s books, soon to be videos. Guitar, Vocals, Folley, Engineering, Recording, Mixing.
Le Monde de L’art Radio Broadcast, France, 2003
Eight episode show for French Radio about the inadequacy of language. Included live interviews, and dramatic reading of internet chatroom
dialogue regarding contemporary art. I was Co-Writer, Co-Director, Performer, Co-editor.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
We Were the World
Collaboratively written/improvised play. I also wrote the music. Rhinocerous Fest 2007
Site Unseen
Solo performance within the group Plasticene's larger show. I chewed up all of the pictures from the Z Encyclopedia and put
the spit into salt shakers. Beside each shaker I grouped and labeled the lumps of chewed images by subject, Chicago Cultural
Center 2007
Detail From the Mountainside
Lead role in this comedy-musical. “Jeff Harms as the protagonist…gives a solid performance.” – Chicago Reader. “Actors
Harms and Sherman have a natural knack for off-kilter theater.” –New City. Rhinocerous Fest, director Brian Torrey Scott.
Prop Theater, Chicago 2005
Discarded Landscape
Play collaboratively written largely through improvisation. “Jeff Harms is engaging and often funny as the father.” –Chicago
Reader. “The soberly natural performance of Jeff Harms… resonates like a song in your head.” – New City Rhinocerous
Fest Prop Theater, Chicago 2004
Alice
Co-wrote, acted, site-specific performance piece, using mobsters to represent the caterpillar in Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland. “Jeff Harm, Nicholas Monsour and Brian Torrey Scott enact a lovely bit of Tarantinoesque nonsense in the
confines of Simon’s Tavern.”-New City with the Neo Futurists, Simon’s Tavern, Chicago 2004
Angels/Angles
Gained a Russian accent to play an illegal immigrant in the four week run of this staged reading. With Hypatia Theater
Company, Chicago 2007
Red Badge of Courage
Staged reading for Dexter Bullard’s work in progress. Chicago Theater Building, Chicago 2006
Air.Tact.Light.
Played the role of David. Award-winning group project commissioned by Performing Arts Chicago. Director Brian Torrey
Scott, The Athenaeum, Chicago 2004
Migration
Actor. Rhinocerous Fest, Director Nora Lange, Chicago 2003
Strange Fish
Butoh dancer, Director Katsura Kan, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2003
Tell Nobody
Solo performance. I told a story to a live audience in a room full of video monitors each broadcasting a pre-recorded image
of myself telling the same story, slightly out of sync. I spliced in occasionally some Marx Bros. The Pearl, Seattle 2000
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
The Audition Studio
Intro to Shurtleff I, II, Improvisation I, II, Master’s Scene Study
The Old Town School of Folk Music
Guitar Theory, Guitar Private Lessons, Voice Private Lessons, Ballet
Brandeis University
Acting, Voice
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Goat Island Summer School (2003)
Richard Marens
Alexander Technique for Singing
