CHUCK McCOLLUM

A brief Bio:

Chuck McCollum quickly realized he was no longer a big fish after leaving high school, and has never fully recovered from that harsh reality. Like many tragic figures, he took to the comedy stage and spent much of the 80s appearing in nightclubs, touring rock venues, and causing trouble at colleges and universities across the country with comedy troupes The Big Mac Theater and The Riot Act. Once life on the road proved to be entirely too romantic for someone of his mundane upbringing, he opted for some staggeringly brief success as a professional screenwriter--but even that didn’t afford him the level of rejection to which he was accustomed, so he decided to have a go at a profession acting career. (A move that, by the late 90s, thrust him deep into show business obscurity.) By the turn of the 21st century he managed to claw his way onto the other side of the camera and finally met some actual casting directors, and thus spent the following ten years working with and learning from remarkable professionals like Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein, Jeanie Bacharach, April Webster, and the late Ronnie Yeskel. However, success in the casting community was clearly too much for him so, in the middle of the 2009 recession, he decided the optimum economical move was a return to acting. Soon after that, he quietly sneaked onstage in the middle of productions like “The Play About the Baby” at the Road Theater, “Sweeney Todd” and “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at the El Portal, and “The Dinosaur Within” and “Futura” at Theatre @ Boston Court. Recently, having managed numerous times to elude studio security, he has been spotted skulking around the craft service tables on the sets of such television shows as “Your Honor,” “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” “The Rookie,” “Bosch: Legacy,” “Hacks,” the new “Matlock” with Kathy Bates and “1923” with Harrison Ford. He also spotted Cheech Marin at the grocery store the other day.