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ARTHUR LIGHTBODY, Performance Resume
Talent Rep: Fast Lane Talent Agency (NC) 
980-224-0337​

Mobile: 704-608-3033 Email: arthur.lightbody@gmail.com
Demo Reel: April 2022 Lightbody Reel YouTube: youtube.com/user/arthurlightbody
Height/Weight: 6’ 4” 224 lbs. Hair Gray Eyes: Gray Age Range: 65-80
​Film - Role - Director/Film Company
  • ​War Room-Principal (Deleted Scene) -Alex Kendrick/Kendrick Brothers
  • Andy/Lead-Raymond-Carissa Chen/SCAD.
  • George’s Chick/Lead-Grandfather-Renzi Li/SCAD
  • On-the-Line/Lead-Ben/Madelyn Rogers/Southern Advent Univ. (Post production) 
  • RU Serious-Supporting/Bishop Max-Chris Davios
  • Caged-Background-Michael Walker
  • Fish Head Blues-Supporting-The Sour-Faced Man/Kevin Muenzer-Wildrover Films
  • The Legend of Red Lake/Supporting-Street Person-Cory Warren (Post production)     
  • The Rush Call/Supporting-Papa Stevens-Trey Riley
  • Saturday Afternoon/Supporting-Dad/Laura DeBar 
  • Grandma's Hats/Supporting-Grandpa/Anil Dhokai/Strawhouse Pictures 
  • Salt Water Taffy/Principal-Older Man-Elias Gandy/Gandy Visible Pictures 
  • Home Sick/Supporting-Old Man/Wesley Collins/SCAD 
  • The Invaded/Lead-William/Electric Films and Candor Fiction
  • Prodigal Sons/Principal-Vice Principal/Mark Stewart Iverson (Post production)
  • Heyena Spots/Lead-Charles-Saad Hakim/Freewater Productions (Post production)
  • Bringer of Light/Supporting-Abbot/Caleb Smedra/Crimson Rose and Colt Sugg
  • Every Day is Exactly the Same-Music Video/Lead-Earl/Benjamin DiGiaccobe-NCSA
  • The Plumber/Supporting-Dan/William Herf
  • Auntie Alecto's Fantastic Black Umbrella/Principal-Sick Man/Quincy-Kern Johnson-NCSA
  • White Moves First/Lead-White Man/Matthew Epp
Television -Role-Director
  • Inexplicable: How Christianity Spread (TBN) -Abraham Lincoln-James Langteaux
  • Limbo (Pilot)-Co-Star/Monsignor-Pat Dortch (Post production)
  • Florida Man-Principal/Old Man-Donald Todd
  • Married to Crazy-Episode One-Co-Star/John-Jeremy Carr-Patriot Saints Films

Awards
Best Actor @ Carolina Film Community  2023

Commercials-Role-Director/Film Company
  • Aroga Home Health Care-Principal-Jeni Buckholt, Director/Haven Creative
  • Interpoint Health-Principal-Michael Wise, Director/The Big Picture
  • Supernatural Bible-Principal-Sid Roth
  • Atrium Health-Principal-Picnic Table 

​Stage-Role-Theater                  
  • The Zen Substitute-Head Chorus Leader-Hamline University
  • Fools-Slovitch the Butcher-Orange Coast Comm. Theater
  • Calvary Drama -Several short plays-Calvary Church, Charlotte
  • Funny Money-Det. Sgt. Slater-Community Playhouse, Lancaster, SC
  • The Wizard of Oz-Zeke and Ozian-Matthews Playhouse
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream -Theseus-Community Playhouse, Lancaster, SC
  • Greatest Christmas Pageant-Reverend Hopkins-Matthews Playhouse
  • Becket-The Pope and four other-Central Piedmont Community College
  • Shakespeare in Love-Condell/Sampson/other-Central Piedmont Community College    
  • A Path Made Clear-Abraham Lincoln-The Museum of the Waxhaws
  • Carpe Diem-Abraham Lincoln-Union Playmakers
  • The Diary of Anne Frank-Otto Frank-Central Piedmont Community College 

One-man Shows: 

“Daybreak!” (John Wycliffe)
“In Tyndale’s Tomb” (William Tyndale)
“A Majority of One” and “The Last Days” (Andrew Jackson)
 
Actor Training
  • Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, Minor in speech and drama, William Kimes
  • Orange County Community College, Costa Mesa Calif., Acting II
  • Gideon Film Festival on cold reads, Bonnie Johnson
  • Film Actor’s Studio: Subtext, Technique & Scene Study Lon Bumgarner & Marilyn Carter
  • Helen Kearney Konen, Auditioning
  • The Actor’s Lab, Scene and auditioning, Pat Dortch and J.D. Lewis
  • Auditions and Business of Acting Workshop - Kevin Sizemore



Formal education:
  • Hamline University, St. Paul MN, B.A Sociology
  • St. Thomas University, M.A Teaching
  • Bethel Theological Seminary, M.A. Theological Studies
  • Four graduate semesters in linguistics (Universities of North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas-Arlington) 
  • Public Relations studies at U.C. Irvine. 

Special skills
I speak some German and Tagalog and can do  Minnesota, German, Swedish, British, and Southern accents. Swimming and golf.
 
Past occupational experience:
Juvenile corrections, mental health work, language research and Bible translation, administration and public relations. Communications and media relations for print, T.V., Internet and radio; radio program production.  Lived outside the U.S. eleven years, nine years Philippines.