Grant Lancaster

Grant Lancaster

History

Grant Lancaster is a British-American actor, filmmaker, and comedian originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He found his love of performance at the early age of seven after playing Puff The Magic Dragon in elementary school, and seeing Ace Ventura the same year. The rest was history. Since then he has received training at the London Academy of Film & TV, studied at the San Francisco Comedy College and Shelton Studios in California, completed a Bachelors Degree in Acting out in New York, where he graduated with honors and an academic minor in psychology, and received a full scholarship to earn his Master's Degree in Acting from UC Irvine. While working toward his Masters, he wrote the feature film 'Wilt', which he then co-directed, produced and starred in the following summer in New York City. He is a core creative member of The Shorts Show, a popular New York based sketch comedy series. His work has been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, London Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Big Apple Film Festival, and the SAG Short Film Festival, to name a few. He is also a seasoned photographer, slam poet and snowboarder.

Profile

Grant Lancaster

Movies

The Blacklight
Danny
Despite trying to leave behind his life of crime, Danny reluctantly teams with naïve rich kid Liam and wildcard drug dealer Kit Viper. A botched robbery leaves them in possession of a mysterious supernatural artifact with immense potential.
Prism
Director
Prism is an anthology feature, exploring several genres - comedy, dark-comedy, drama, science-fiction, and suspense. With the only connection being the overall theme; the irrationality of love.
Prism
Charlie
Prism is an anthology feature, exploring several genres - comedy, dark-comedy, drama, science-fiction, and suspense. With the only connection being the overall theme; the irrationality of love.
Boiling Pot
Sam Boergadine
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.
Wilt
Miles Parker
Wilt is a dark romantic drama examining the thin line between the love of a friend and the love of a soul mate. The film follows the relationship of Miles and Sarah, two best friends from childhood with a six year age difference who grew up across the street from each other. When Sarah gets into Columbia University out of high school, she comes to visit Miles in New York City for the weekend before she moves into her dorms.
Wilt
Director
Wilt is a dark romantic drama examining the thin line between the love of a friend and the love of a soul mate. The film follows the relationship of Miles and Sarah, two best friends from childhood with a six year age difference who grew up across the street from each other. When Sarah gets into Columbia University out of high school, she comes to visit Miles in New York City for the weekend before she moves into her dorms.
Wilt
Writer
Wilt is a dark romantic drama examining the thin line between the love of a friend and the love of a soul mate. The film follows the relationship of Miles and Sarah, two best friends from childhood with a six year age difference who grew up across the street from each other. When Sarah gets into Columbia University out of high school, she comes to visit Miles in New York City for the weekend before she moves into her dorms.