Matt Barr Brings Acting Experience to 12 Mighty Orphans Project...

From the perspective of translating characters from print into film, Matt Barr, an acclaimed actor, has delved into the realm of the main characters featured in Jim Dent's book Twelve Mighty Orphans. As one of the four partners of 12 Productions, he has studied the characters not only as they have been portrayed in print and captured in film interviews, but he has also met with them personally, filming and interviewing the characters as well as those related to them. He has spent a year trying to understand each of the main characters in terms of nuance, motivation, physical demeanor, speech, personality and experience.

Matt has had a lifelong passion for films and has been acting since elementary school. His first film role was in Levelland, which began filming in Austin the second semester of his senior year in high school and in which he played the lead role.

Currently Matt is playing a lead role in the CBS 13-episode mini-series Harper's Island airing Saturday nights at 9:00 pm ET. He plays the best man in the murder mystery drama about friends and family who literally begin to die on an island where they've come for a destination wedding. He will also have a lead role in the upcoming spin-off of Gossip Girl which will be shot in Los Angeles.

Matt and the three other partners of 12 Productions, Ryan Ross, Mike Barr and Russell Morton, each bring a unique set of skills, experience and goals to the partnership. They have just finished a round of meetings in L.A. with film industry executives interested in taking the 12 Mighty Orphans story to film. Matt and Ryan were raised in the Dallas metro area and now live in Los Angeles where they work in the film industry.

Related info on Matt:
Matt Barr OK! Harper's Island (pdf)
Informal interview on video about his role in the Harper's Island series.
Matt Barr cover story in Allen (TX) Magazine (pdf)