Jeff grew up in the small New England town of Chelmsford,
Massachusetts. It was in Chelmsford where Jeff first began acting,
taking the lead role in the school play when he was just 10 yrs old. He
decided to let acting take a backseat to academics, enrolling at the
Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. A varsity athlete in
basketball and cross country running, he quickly returned to acting as
part of a student production of West Side Story that toured through
England.
Jeff continued his education at Emory University in Atlanta where he
dual majored in Economics and Film Studies. It was at Emory where his
passion for acting and filmmaking finally took control. Jeff and his
roommate Bill Askew became the first students at Emory to produce a
feature length student film with the release of The Breach in 2001, and
the duo directed the film's prequel less than a year later with the
release of their second feature, The Gray Man (2002). The Gray Man earned
recognition as an official selection at the 2002 New Hampshire Film
Expo. After a short return to New England following graduation, Jeff
has moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the entertainment
industry; acting and producing a number of short films.
