Jeremy Akerman

Apt # 205, 2001 Brunswick Street
Halifax NS B3J 3J7
902-423-9775
akermanentertainment@ns.sympatico.ca

Landscape & Portrait Painter

Training in drawing, painting, sculpture Cardiff College of Art. Exhibited in VANS Art in a Box; VANS Corridor Gallery; Lunenburg Art Gallery; One Man show Hidden Gallery Halifax 2010. Colouraturo Gallery, Indian Brook, Cape Breton, summer-fall 2011. [Photos/details of work available if required.]

Actor, Director

30 years experience as an actor in film and television. Appeared in 123 shoots, 116 as lead, supporting or principal. [Detailed screen resume available if required.] 30 plus productions in community theatre with Theatre Arts Guild, Dartmouth Players, Halifax Independent Theatre and No Name Productions as actor, director, lighting designer, artistic director. Former President Nova Scotia Drama League.

Journalist & Author

New reader/reported CHER Radio Sydney. 4 years editor Metro Weekly. Host Nightline open mike show Sydney. Freelance reporter CBC, Ottawa. Author of hundreds of articles, columns in Nova Scotia newspapers, screenplays etc. Author of novel Black Around the Eyes, and What Have You Done For Me Lately.

Administrator, Policy Advisor

7 years Executive Director Intergovernmental Affairs, Province of N.S.
Secretary, Policy Board of Executive Council, Province of Nova Scotia
Special adviser to Minister of the Environment
Special adviser to Department Culture, Recreation and Fitness
General Manager Film Development Fund, Province Nova Scotia

Legislator

10 years Member of the Legislature for Cape Breton East
10 Years member Legislature Law Amendments Committee
Co-author complete revision of Rules and Procedures of House of Assembly

Archaeologist

Head of Research Illustration, Fortress of Louisbourg
Field Archaeologist. Fortress of Louisbourg
Extensive experience field excavation in Cape Breton and UK.