Jack Circus (born 3 July 1992)is an American actor, writer, and poet. He has had a number of his poetry works published internationally by Poetry.com and a number have been awarded Editor's Choice Awards in 2007. His most recent work as an actor included work as the lead in a short film "The One-Wayz" which still is in the works.

Jack Circus was born Raymond Alvarez on July 3 1992 in Los Angeles California. He attended Latona Avenue Elementary where he discovered his passion of writing by writing a number of short stories when he was in 4th grade. After graduating Latona he moved to Fontana California where he attended Southridge Middle School until seventh grade. After finishing sixth grade he made yet another final move to Sylmar California where he lives today.

While in Sylmar he attended Olive Vista Middle School where he finally made a move both on his writing career and acting career in different periods throughout the year. After graduating O.V. Middle he moved on to study at Sylmar High School where he is currently studying Drama.

Theatre

Jack Circus made his first move in acting when he was in eighth grade. After making the decision of wanting to be on television at a young age he was struck my what he calls "a sign" after hearing a radio commercial for Macker Entertainment, located in Glendale California, while riding back from his mother's doctor appointment (which he first refused to go to.) After passing a two interviews Jack was one of the five hundred kids to make it into the acting school, but refused due to finical reasons. About Two months later he was accepted into John Robert Powers Acting School but dropped out before his first class after finding himself a manager while searching Yahoo!

It was with his first Manager where he took attendance to his first acting classes with producer James Quattrochi and took his first headshots with an experienced photographer. Unfortunatly he lost contact after months in the process but found another manager seven months later while searching Los Angeles Craigslist. Sadly, he lost contact with her due to poor communication and work habits.

With that Circus decided to represent himself finding himself gigs.In October 2006 he made his first theatre appearance as a zombie in The Gangbusters production of Night of The Living Dead, which played in Hollywood California for two months straight. Jack has named this his best professional gig in his career so far.From there he primarily acting in musicals. He quickly became a member of Rising Star Musical Troupe making appearances in a number of their productions. With his experience from Rising Star along with some of his credits from his high school's Play Production group he had a full filled resume of Theatre.

Film

Circus made his first film appearance in Linda Chavez's short film "The One-Wayz" in November 2007 after seeing a breakdown posted on an acting website at midnight. He landed the lead part of "Chato" and soon rehearsed one day before the actual filming. Filming lasted apprx. 1 week in Norwalk Califonia. The film is currently still in the works for release.

Circus started writing as he attended Latona Avenue School in Los Angeles when he was in fourth grade. He started out writing short stories and making them into paper back books by folding a number of printing paper and making his own illustrations. They were a hit with his class up to fifth grade where he gave all his books away and gave up his life of writing short stories. It was until he saw an ad in the back of a missing person flyer, for a poetry contest held by poetry.com, he decided to take a chance in writing poetry and submitting his work. After receiving a best in poets nomination, he submitted more and more also receiving a number of Editor's Choice Awards as well as more nominations for best poetry of the year.In ninth grade he continued to write "stronger" poetry reflecting the ideals of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan (which is also one of his heroes.) He decided to name this era of poetry "folk poetry" after the singer.

He is currently writing a homosexual love story based on his past realationship which affected his life, making Circus turn more into a Bob Dylan fanatic.

Circus took interest in music in his Junior year of High School after listening to the Indie Polite Punk band Vampire Weekend and indie singer Kate Nash. He is currently learning to play keyboard and is struggling to start a band called Cycloptic Sundays with thought of playing a mix of ska and punk. He soon wants to major in music in college.