Deceptive Cadence

As a boy growing up in New York, Teddy Cecil had big dreams of becoming a filmmaker. By the time he was fourteen he was splicing his own 16mm films together and knew that movies were his passion. He got his first real taste of the performing arts when the Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company, Americas oldest teenage Shakespeare acting troupe, recruited him. After four years of Shakespeare and a performing arts curriculum in high school, Teddy attended NYU, where he graduated with honors and received dual concentrations in Cinema Studies and Producing.

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As a boy growing up in New York, Teddy Cecil had big dreams of becoming a filmmaker. By the time he was fourteen he was splicing his own 16mm films together and knew that movies were his passion. He got his first real taste of the performing arts when the Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company, Americas oldest teenage Shakespeare acting troupe, recruited him. After four years of Shakespeare and a performing arts curriculum in high school, Teddy attended NYU, where he graduated with honors and received dual concentrations in Cinema Studies and Producing.

While in school, Teddy continued to write and direct several of his own short films in addition to working as a freelance filmmaker. His studies included a semester in Amsterdam where he learned about international film production and a leave of absence to work directly for Ang Lee on his most recent film Taking Woodstock. Teddy shot the making-of documentary throughout as well as much of the b-roll footage for the film. After graduating from NYU, Teddy moved out to Los Angeles with a backpack full of his own screenplays. Teddy, who is 23 and living near Santa Monica, is currently in the development stages of his first feature film, which he wrote and will direct.

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