The Revealed Masters: Chad Allen
July 10, 2007

Cross-posted to doorQ.com, The Gay SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Site

The next installment in who's contributing to doorQ.com.

He gets money from ATMs like Regular People!

The first time I met Chad Allen (Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman, The Donald Strachey Mysteries) I'd been in Los Angeles for all of a few months, had just moved to West Hollywood, was on my way to meet friends, and... needed cash. As I stood waiting for the ATM to spit out my mealy millions, I looked next to me and beheld a man, no a god, of such beauty and stature, the other gods I'd seen in the Great Gay Mecca of West Hollywood paled in comparison. On the other side of me, was Chad.

(Oh, he's going to get me back for that one.)

He said "Hey," I said "Hey," and we both went on our merry ways, me babbling about my Celebrity Encounter to my inured friends, and Chad to...

Hmmm... What does Chad do when I don't see him? I mean, other than making movies, appearing on Larry King, getting on the cover of The Advocate, and tirelessly working for the betterment of the larger Gay Community?

If you haven't guessed by now, the second associate on-board for doorQ is Chad Allen, actor, producer and all around cool guy.

That incident at the ATM machine was 10 years ago. I was a younger man then and Chad, I think, was a baby. As Cthulhu corrupted it, Chad and I met for real, some years later. A friend of mine was a friend of his. Chad read my script about a gay detective, loved it and then went on to make a movie about a gay detective... for Regent/ here! Entertainment.

So first formal meeting out, I learned a valuable lesson about Hollywood from Chad: actors need to eat. Seriously, the real lesson, applicable within Hollywood or without, was that a good script makes for a good introduction, and that from good introductions come good friends.

Chad and I ran into each other a bajillion times over the years, at gay film fests, conferences, coffee shops, sky diving trade-shows and car battery beauty pageants (I made one of those things up), and always talked, among other things, about working together one day. With this whole doorQ Gay SciFi/Fantasy/Horror project picking up steam, that day had arrived.

Chad (and Chris, who I'll talk about tomorrow) was one of the first people I called. He's a smart guy, knows the business, and has always been eager to share that knowledge. He jumped on board doorQ -- both behind the scenes (as a writer, producer, director, and mentor) and in front of the camera, as an actor -- pretty much before I'd even finished saying the "sci" in "I'm making Gay SciFi, Fantasy and Horror stuff."

That enthusiasm means I'm very, very lucky, and honored, to have such a talented fellow on my team.

Tomorrow, the only person on the planet who has footage of Chad Allen attempting to defy gravity with powerisers stilts -- and failing: Chris Racster.

Posted by Jody at July 10, 2007 01:36 PM

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