Jonathan Maxwell Reeves

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Jonathan Maxwell Reeves

Producer, director, actor, and screenwriter from Antwerpen, Belgium

I was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1968. My mother didn't want me to become an actor and so I was send to a school to become bookkeeper. This went wrong and at age 18 I left school without any degree. In 1992 after a whole range of jobs going from PC/Hifi salesman,salesman at an ISP and even working in a pizzeria for a short time I finally got my chance when I was accepted at the Municipal Academy of Word and Music in Hoboken. At that time one of the best artistic schools in the Antwerp area with a wonderful reputation.

There I was trained for 6 years by Belgian's leading actor Herbert Flack and Erik Maes. I had several parts in plays from Shakespeare, Moliere, Anouilh and many more. The most important lesson I learned over there was that doing classical plays on stage is the best way to learn and to shape your fundamentals in acting.

From 1992 till 1994 I had a short artistic break - I only did plays at the Theatre Academy - and I served my country for two years in the Belgian army as a volunteer. They tried to make a Rambo out of me, but that was not a success. I was using my brain to much I guess. :-)

At the end of 1994 I returned back to the stage and I did audition for the part of Billy Bibbit in the Dutch stage play version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Wim Lanckrock and adapted by Alex Van Haecke. My biggest part until today, I did 80 shows in total of this play and more than 15.000 people saw it. For a city like Antwerp that's a huge audience.

In 1999 I started to concentrate more and more on writing (screen) plays, directing and developing game-show formats instead of acting but from time to time I still accept guest appearances in television series or Belgian movies and you can find me in the streets of Antwerp where I regularly do mime, clown and living statue acts as a street-performer.

In 2007 I was for a short time connected as actor at the Belgian amusement park 'Ooit Tongeren' but the company went into bankruptcy three weeks after opening. Due that I became very disapointed in people and most fellow actors over there. When the ship was sinking most of them where putting knives in eachothers back. It made me loose my believe in playing and my love for the stage a bit. It's unsure I will ever be on a stage again due this whole event. Convincing me to play again will be hard, but not impossible.

Today I'am more focused on writing plays, screenplays, developing tv formats, webtv concepts, directing, making shorts etc... I do have several great ideas for feature movies, television series and shorts, but I'am still looking for some really creative people (maybe you ?) to work together with. Let's hope I can find those people here at Stage 32. I don't have a HD camera and good sound equipment myself and that's most of the time the biggest problem and the reason why my projects stay such a long time in development or pre-production phase. I need the people, the people to be creative with...

Feel free to take a look at the TVFormatshop Showcase http://www.tvformatshop.com with more than 45 TV Formats (all registered formats so don't try to steal !!!) available for sale, production or co-production. If you're interested to work together let me know.

A brand new internet concept is in development at this time and it will go in beta-phase somewhere this or next year. If you like to be a beta-tester, and if you own a smartphone (that's really needed) send me a message and you might become one of the 100 lucky people I will select for this beta-phase.

At this time I'am also very busy with writing for The Entertainment Experience. This is a Dutch concept hosted by director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Robocop) that will result in the first ever user generated movie. The site and the screenplay are in Dutch, but if you can read Dutch feel free to go and read my stuff. The concept is that we have to write new scenes for an already written screenplay. Paul Verhoeven will select the best ones and then we have to write new scenes again. This process will be repeated 8 times until there is a screenplay of about 25 minutes. Then the selected actors,directors, cameramen and composers will make a movie of it and Paul Verhoeven will also make his version of the script. In April 2012 both films will go in premiere in Holland. Wish me luck :-) http://www.entertainmentexperience.nl/user/ghostwriter

About Jonathan

Antwerpen, Belgium
Producer, Director, Actor, and Screenwriter
Last online 10 months ago
Karma: 47

Credits

Shake before use (first time on a stage) (1980)
Citizen
Kindervreugd / Mady Van Dyck
Beck - The Locked Room (1991)
Policeman / Extra
Prime Time / Jacob Bijl
Along the Quay (1991)
Bad guy / Extra
BRTN / Patrick LeBon
FC The Champions (1991)
Football Player / Extra
BRTN / Willy Vanduren
Willems & Co (1991)
Barman / Guest Actor
BRTN / Marc Lybaert
La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler) (1991)
Soldier / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
A Man Needs A Plan (1992)
Client in bar / Extra
Prime Time / Marc Didden
Family (1992)
Dokter / Guest Actor
Studio's A / Herman Fabri
Artist's Entry (1992)
Several parts & improvisations / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
Scapino (Moliere/ Frank Dunlop/Jim Dale/Luk Wyns) (1993)
Jellito / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
Internet E Fragmmenti : Othello (First online play ever done on the internet) (1993)
Othello (in English) / Virtual Actor trough VoIP System and slide projection
Rag Doll Theatratical Productions / Roberta Lerici
Oh What A Lovely War (1993)
Several parts / Actor
HAT / Erik Maes
Hold Me (Jules Feifer) (1993)
Several parts & improvisations / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
The Gentlemen's Orchestra ( Adaptation of L'Orchestre by Jean Anouilh) (1994)
Clarinet Player / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
Avanti La Musica (1994)
Several parts & improvisations / Actor
HAT / Erik Maes
Taming Of The Shrew (Modern adaptation of the Shakespeare play) (1994)
Georges Joly aka Bjonne (original Biondello) / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Dutch Adaptation - 80 shows) (1995)
Willy Witters (original Billy Bibbit) / Actor
TAA / Wim Lanckrock & Alex Van Haecke
Law / Injustice & Power / Powerlessness (1995)
Several parts & improvisations
HAT / Erik Maes
Not Tonight Honey (1995)
Myself / Studio Guest in the show
VMMa / Kanaal 2 / Unknown director
Edition (1996)
Gilbert Delafaille / Guest Actor
Studio's A / Walter Rits
Character (1996)
Communist / Extra
First Floor Features / Mike van Diem
The Cherry Orchard (Anton P. Tsjechov) (1996)
Servant & Partyguest / Extra
KNS / Karst Woudstra
What's Up (1997)
Client in bar / Guest Actor
D&D Productions / Mark Damen
Broken Dreams (Turbo Adaptation of 12 classical theater plays) (1997)
Othello & several other parts / Actor
HAT / Herbert Flack
Wittekerke (1998)
Journalist / Guest Actor
D&D Productions / Renaat Coppens
Marlene (1998)
Myself / Studio Guest
VMMa / VTM / Unknown director
Shades (1999)
Papparazi Cameraman / Extra (I wanted to be in a movie with Mickey Rourke :-) )
Corsan Productions / Erik Van Looy
Sardsch (1999)
Jewish Diamondtrader / Extra
ZDF / Wolfgang Hesse
Spoed (2006)
Policeman / Guest Actor
Studio's A / VTM / Jean-Pierre Van Steerteghem
Dead Serious (English & Dutch version) (2007)
Death / Actor (also screenplay,cinematographer,director)
GhostTV / Jonathan Maxwell Reeves
Opel Belgium TV commercial & Billboard (2007)
Zero / Actor
Unknown
The Stripes Of The Zebra (2008)
Roadworker / Actor
Men with Movie Cameras / Toon Mertens
Summer Of The Viewer (2010)
Myself / Host & introducing the movie Close Encounters Of The 3th Kind on the pay channel Prime
Prime / Unknown

Awards

3th prize writing contest Creative Writing for 'Bubbelzee NV' (2009)
1st prize diction contest Municipal Education Antwerp (1980)

Physical attributes

Gender: Male
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 202 lbs.
Body type: Average
Hair: Bald
Eyes: Green
Ethnicity: Caucasian

Education

Municipal Education Antwerp - SIHA 2 (1983-1986)
State Education - RMS I (1980-1983)
Municipal Education Antwerp - SILO 51 (1974-1980)
Municipal Academy for Music and Word - Hoboken Belgium
Theatre Of Public Works (Improvisation & Acrobatics)
Kopspel : Twin Peaks Theater Course

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