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Drew began acting in theater/TV/film in his hometown of Nashville, TN at the age of 12. After training at Nashville Academy Theater, The Acting Studio, Northwestern University and British-American Drama Academy, he returned to Nashville for one season to play Orlando in "As You Like It," the inaugural production of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. After acting in L.A. for several years, he took a long hiatus from acting, earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and taught Classics at Brooklyn College and English Literature at West Point. A resident of New York City, he has performed in hundreds of plays, films, TV shows, commercials, and music videos over the course of his career in NYC, Chicago, London, Nashville and Los Angeles. In 2018, Drew made his double film debut at TriBeCa Film Festival in the virtual reality film "Queerskins: A Love Story" and in MGM's "#WarGames," a digital reboot of the 1983 Matthew Broderick film. Acting highlights of the last two years include the feature films "The Shed," a horror film from the producer of "Saw"; "Catching Up," a dramatic comedy selected by top film festivals in 2019-2020; and "Aramingo Avenue," a drama starting production in the fall of 2020. Recent award nominations include Best Actor in a Comedy by Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival (2020) for "Old Dad." Drew recently made his feature directorial debut with the 2020 release on Amazon of of his documentary "They Look Like Trees," a cinéma-vérité film about a man who suddenly loses his vision after 60 years of perfect vision, and an unlikely friendship that ensues.