A scene from Cymbeline (with Cary Vaughn; Director of Photography - Chad Davis)
Jeff Scott Rust
currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee and performs in night clubs, films, commercials and Memphis area theatres.
He portrayed three characters in an episode of the BBC/History Channel documentary series Days That Shook the World. He acted as a prosecuting attorney in the indie feature General Sessions, produced by lawyer and author Larry Moore. Winning the award for Best Score at the Los Angeles Independent Film & Video festival, the General Sessions soundtrack includes four selections from Jeff's music catalog.
For information about Jeff's work in music, click Sound Design and Music.
Film
PAWN (Starring role as Vincent Harlow)
Short Feature written and directed by Jim Esposito
The Reluctant Comedian (Featured role: Willy Lorat)
Feature by Jim Esposito, production by Sleeping Cat Studio - Jim Esposito, director
Chasing The White Dragon (Featured role: Bubby) Written and Directed by Kathilynn Phillips. Available via Amazon Video
The Garden (Lead: James)
Feature by Thomason Pollard with cinematography by Eric Price.
*Premiered in Europe at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.
Premiered in USA at the Indie Memphis Film Festival.
By No Other Name (Co-star: Billy Shears)
Written by John Moore (Feature Trailer by Grade One Entertainment) - Directed by Brian Churchill
Days That Shook the World - Martin Luther King, Jr. episode (Featured roles)
BBC/History Channel Production - Srik Narayanan, writer & director
Cymbeline (Co-star: Iachimo)
Stage-On-Screen Production - John Malloy, director
General Sessions (Co-star: Prosecutor Irving Phelps)
Independent Feature - Larry Moore, director
Rollin' With "K" (Featured role: Plantation Owner)
Made for Time-Warner Cable - Michael Tabor, director
Into Thy Narrow Bed (Featured role: Choir director)
Independent Feature - John Malloy, director
Going To California (Featured role: Memphis Mystery Man)
Made for Showtime series - Griffin Dunne, director
The Rainmaker (Driver)
Feature - Francis Ford Coppola, director
Separated By Murder (Waiter)
Made for TV (CBS) - Larry Thompson Productions
Your Place Or Mine? (Club dancer)
Bar-Kays music video - Ardent Teleproductions
Commercial Film
Horseshoe Casino
(Featured roles in ad campaigns)
Produced by Prin Pictures for RPM Advertising
Family Life Services of Memphis (Featured role: Counselor)
P.S.A. - Jim Robinson, Director
Mid-South Auto Showcase (Featured role: Car buyer)
Auto sales show - John Still, Director
C.L.U.E. Filmmakers
(Starring role: Instructor of animated filmmaking)
Instructional Video for the Memphis City Schools
Margaret Sano, Director
Theatre
An Evening with the General (as General Ulysses S. Grant)
Script by Jeff, based on Grant's letters to the Union Army's Department of the Mississippi in St. Louis
Dir. by Stephen Hassinger and Vickie Parker for The Inn at Hunt-Phelan
Dinner Theatre event at The Inn at Hunt-Phelan, Memphis, TN. . .
This was the location of General Grant's headquarters while planning the Battle of Vicksburg.
Promotional photo
Il Trovatore (coro - second tenor & anvil player!)
Starring Randolph Locke and Carol Sparrow, Dir. by Michael Ching & Daniel Helfgot
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
Rigoletto (coro - first tenor)
Starring Michael Corvino, Dir. by Michael Ching & John Hoomes
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
Tosca (coro - second tenor)
Starring Kallen Esperian, Dir. by Michael Ching & Michael McConnell
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
Shakespeare's Cymbeline (as Iachimo)
Dir. by John Malloy for Jim Esposito's Sleeping Cat Studio
Tales Of Hoffmann (coro - second tenor)
Starring Randolph Locke, Dir. by Michael Ching & Karen Tiller
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
Personals (as Jeff Thompson)
Dir. by Billy Pullen for Playwright's Forum at Theatreworks
Turandot (Royal Palace Guard)
Starring Lori Phillips, Dir. by Kenneth Schermerhorn & John Hoomes
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
A Man and a Woman (The Man, with Leah Roberts)
Dir. by Jen Wood-Bowien for the P&H Cafe Ten-Minute Play Festival
Little Red Wagon Painted Blue (as Steve Porter)
Dir. by Marler Stone for Playwright's Forum at Theatreworks
Far East by A.R. Gurney (as Ensign Bob Munger)
Dir. by Jerry Chipman for Theatre Memphis Main Stage
Manon Lescaut (as a Waiter/French Soldier)
Starring Kallen Esperian, Dir. by Michael Ching & Michael McConnell for Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (as Nick)
Dir. by Hal Harmon, Emerald Theatre Co. at Theatreworks
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie (as Anthony Marston)
Dir. by John Rone for Germantown Community Theatre
Aida (as Egyptian Treasure Bearer)
starring Geraldine McMillian, Dir. by Mark Ensley, David Pfeiffer, & Sherrill Milnes
Opera Memphis at the Orpheum
The Nutcracker (as a Parent in the Grandfather Dance)
Dir. by Julie & Tom Knowles for Memphis Dance Theatre
The Best Man by Gore Vidal (as a Reporter)
Dir. by Leigh Ann Evans for Germantown Community Theatre
Acting study with. . .
Molli Benson (Los Angeles) - Camera, directing
Craig Brewer - Camera, scene study
Gary Grubbs - scene study
Linda Phillips-Palo (Casting director) - Scene study
University of Memphis - Camera
The Actor's Studio, Lisa Lax (Memphis) - Camera
John Still (Memphis) - Camera, voice-over
John Malloy (Memphis) - Camera, stage, radio
Michael David McGuire (Los Angeles/Memphis) - Camera
Max Maxwell (Memphis) - Stunts, fighting
Academie Moderne LTD (Boston) - Modeling: runway & camera
Other stage training. . .
University of Memphis - Shakespeare scene studies
Memphis Fencers Association with
Tom Knowles - Beginner & Intermediate Fencing
P&H Shakespeare Repertory with
John Malloy - scene study using Cymbeline
Theatre Memphis Scene Study Workshop with
Joanne Malin - using The Lion In Winter
Special Skills:
Music production, film & video editing, composer, drummer, electric bassist, and singer (tenor)
Stats:
Height: 5' 9" - Weight: 140 lbs.
Hair: Brown - Eyes: Hazel
Character age range: 40-55
|edition: January/2021|
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