Biography of Aspiration

Jeremy Bergen, the man, the myth, the legend.  Just kidding, he’s just a regular guy with far-reaching aspirations, aspirations expanding into the creative realms of writing and filmmaking.  Throughout the years, he engaged with multiple story streams and concepts covering media all across the creative board, but mostly just novels, short stories, films, and, more recently, theatre. 

According to Bergen, his official start came back when he was 9 years old.  He wrote a short, uncomplicated mystery story starring 10 year old twins as the detectives, sort of like The Hardy Boys, The Boxcar Children, or The Bobbsey Twins.  Most of Bergen’s subsequent narratives were based on stories made up when he played as child.  (For instance, playing with cars on the roll-out carpet town would provide a scenario for a creative narrative.)  Using these ideas as a foundation, he would build and expand on the story and let it develop into something more substantial. 

There was a stint in his lifetime where he would have so many ideas and concepts for superheroes.  He used to draw them and explain their origins, supplementary characters, and, of course, superpowers.  Most of these ideas have been stashed away in a drawer somewhere with other childhood memories.  Only one of these ideas has survived the dust.  One of these ideas is currently under idle development in the form of a feature length, full-budget screenplay.  Bergen has stated that “this project is simply going to sit in his creative archives and hopefully someday get submitted professionally.” 

One of Bergen’s goals was to become a published writer by the age of 20.  Although the goal did not come true in a fashion that was as grand as he might have hoped, it did technically come true.  He submitted a Christmas story to a local newspaper at the age of 16 that got editor’s pick.  This past summer, he also submitted a short story for a contest run by a Canadian publisher.  The top 33% of all entries submitted would be placed in the anthology.  Bergen made the top third of submissions and is happy that his fiction has been released to the public. 

As far as filmmaking goes, he loves being in front of and behind the camera.  Although not as experienced with film (as much as he would like to be), he just cannot seem to get enough on the theatre stage, with a grand total of 10 characters portrayed on the main stage by the end of his third year here at Providence.  He is hoping that the acting experience will transfer well into film.

Aspirations that Jeremy Bergen holds for the future is completing a film for his Communications and Media Practicum, as well as possibly writing a play based on his short story, a fantasy novel, the superhero screenplay (as mentioned before), and an alien Conworld which will serve as a basis for a trilogy of novels.  Bergen asks everyone to “wish [him] luck!”

In addition, since I won't be writing about the play I saw last night now, I will post a link for it so that you can still learn about it if you are still curious.  http://bit.ly/6AyVq5