Grant Lancaster

Actor · Director · Writer

Biography

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.