about me
Guido Gerard
18-01-1974, Oldenzaal
Graduated from the Academy of Drama, Eindhoven - 2001

Guido (Paul Alexander) Gerard (18-01-1974) is the youngest member of a family of five children. He grew up in Oldenzaal. After school he was engaged in sports. Football, karate and especially tennis. He was on national training and trained five to six times a week. At the age of sixteen he stopped intensive training and focused on his other great passion: music. The first school band was formed and he would later play in various bands.

After high school, Guido went to study journalism in Zwolle. This did not bring him what he was looking for. He couldn't use his creativity and felt out of place in Zwolle. He continued his study career at the Pabo in Hengelo. De Pabo and Guido turned out not to be a good match. He found the approach too academic and the internships in the junior classes drove him crazy. Nevertheless, the Pabo has yielded some good things: He founded a cabaret group there, joined the school theater and quickly played away his stage fright.

When he got a role in 'The mother of Icarus' by Sam Shepard at a Concordia production in Enschede, he knew for sure; he would move on to theater and music. After a year of working and performing with bands, Guido went to Eindhoven, where he was accepted for drama training.

Guido graduated in 2001 with the performance 'de Graanrepublic', where, in addition to his playing, he also created the music for the performance. He immediately started working at De Muze workshop in Tilburg, where he would do many courses, workshops and directing. His first theater tour was as an actor and dancer with the progressive theater group United-C. With the well-received 'Error' they toured the Netherlands and Belgium.

Over the years, Guido has done many directing, written for theater groups, acted and taught. He has always had a great affinity with interdisciplinary theater and location theatre.

Since 2008, he has started to focus more on camera acting. In 2014 he is an actor with extensive experience in film acting and has appeared in series such as Flikken Maastricht and Van God Los, as well as in films and the award-winning French court métrage 'Dejeuner du matin'.

One of his last projects was 'Nexus', a film by Harrie Verbeek, in which he plays the leading role. Verbeek's short drama 'Stilte na de storm' was the Dutch entry for the Oscars a few years earlier.
Also available as editor and musician/composer

ask me for
film, filmfestival, commercial, bedrijfsfilm, trainingsacteur, stem, voice-over, muziek/componist, theater, presentatie

remarks
musician: composed for various theater performances
writer: wrote various plays for groups and own productions

trackrecord
2015 Lead role in All there is (several international film festival selections)
Leading role in Gamma commercial - the conscious handyman
2014 Leading role in Nexus (director: Harrie Verbeek)
Lead role in Still life (director: Michael Kreuzberg)
2013 VAN God los (series): directed by Eric de Bruin

awards
Dejeuner du matin: official selection Huesca, jury prize Yafka film festival
48 hours music video 2011: best acting
Eindhovens Film Festival: audience award 'Passers by'

equipment
Homestudio voor stem/voice-over. Cubase, adobe-audition.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 6 , After effects, audition voor montage/editing

software knowledge
Final draft
Adobe premiere / after effects / audition
Cubase