About Jerry Brewer
Bio
Jerry Brewer is a Brazilian-American actor, writer, director, and singer from Detroit living in Los Angeles. During his pre professional life in Michigan he worked to develop his craft as an actor in theatre repertoire of plays and musicals such as Don’t Rock the Boat and Les Misérables. He has also participated in award winning films including Signs and The Art of Betrayal alongside actor, writer, and director Tyler Harding, being recognized in the Chicago-Southland International and All American Film Festivals. His past actor training includes a background in Stanislavski-based film training instructed by actress, writer, director Aïda Muñoz in The Actor’s Workshop Detroit.
Jerry is currently a senior at the University of Southern California studying to earn a Bachelor’s of Arts in Theatre with and Acting Emphasis, a minor in Cinematic Arts, and exploring the secrets of the universe with a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics. At USC, Jerry has studied under professors just as world-renowned Stanislavski expert, actress, and director Dr. Sharon Carnicke, Juilliard graduate Mary Joan Negro, actors Paul Urcioli and Stevie Johnson at the School of Dramatic Arts. He is also learning screenwriting under veteran screenwriter and actor Jim Staahl at the school of Cinematic Arts.
Jerry’s recent projects include various student films at the School of Cinematic Arts and is currently writing a science-fantasy drama series that he will act in and direct.
A Passion for Acting and Filmmaking
From the very first time my inspirational parents showed me E.T. at the age of three I felt as though I was flying, soaring beyond the stars and free to explore the universe. I watched a group of kids went beyond the frivolous limitations of society and simply allowed their curiosity and will to spread love soar to help an innocent and scared creature fleeing those who pursued him.
Never has any experience had a greater impact in my life than my first viewing of E.T. with my parents. Society imposes rules and criticisms that suppress and weaken our dreams, and deems them impossible. E.T. inspired me to hold onto love and curiosity and to soar beyond the stars and explore the impossible in the efforts to inspire and spread love.
And that is my mission statement as an actor, writer, and director: to inspire and spread love by taking people on an adventure, a journey into the unknown that society tells them they can’t explore. I wish to remind people who they were and who they still are at heart, a curious kid wanting to see all that life has to offer.
When we escape into the beautifully limitless and immersive worlds of the movies we are free to fly alongside E.T. and friends on bikes, we go on adventure and the magic streams through us. Somehow in escaping to another world, we learn more about this one, we are reminded once again of all the ubiquitous light in the world and in ourselves as we, like the kids, become the pilots of our own destiny beyond the stars.
