Tristan Wainwright

Tristan Michael Wainwright is a Actor/Director/Musician hailing from DeRidder, Louisiana. As a Director and Actor Tristan won 3rd place at the Pro8mm One Roll Challenge at Audfest both in the physical and online competitions for his film Hydrated, competing against over 40 contestants this was his first attempt at using Super 8 film. Tristan wrote, directed, and starred in a film for the Audience Awards Shorty Shorts film contest for a film called The Visit. He also served as an Assistant Director for Director Adam Egizi for the film Blood is Read. Tristan has acted in several short films, such as Welcome to the Family, directed by Carl Bergeron. This film won 3rd place in the Boomtown Small and Creepy Contest in 2016. In it Tristan plays a creepy bell hop at a not so comfy bed and breakfast. In the amazing short It Lurks in The Woods directed by upcoming director Mark Gorham, Tristan plays a Rod Serling type narrator who reminds us that no one can escape whats coming. As an extra in Star Students, directed by Tyler Rivera Stein, also within the same film project Tristan plays a pitchman for a commercial of a fictional drink called Stemuloids. In Separated, written and directed by Kaitlyn Gunter, Tristan takes his first shot at being a newly emerged Zombie with a taste for flesh. This summer Tristan starting learning the work of a Grip from mentor Jim LeDoux while serving as an extra in the upcoming short Dragon, with Director and mentor Barry Pearl. In addition to film Tristan has a love for the stage. He occasionally performs at the local Impromptu Theater alongside great friends and mentors like Leah Catherine Thompson and John Nelson. His plays so far include Law and Order Crhyme and Pun-ishment, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and The Edge of the Nest. Tristan has an amazing announcer type voice and was recently asked to do a voice recitation of a shortened form of The Raven for a piece called Nevermore. Proud of his Louisiana heritage Tristan is a true native of the south...... his mother has a verified heritage of French Acadian, Native American (The Houma}, West African, and Asian and his father European mostly British Isles and Scandinavian. The result being one incredibly handsome human being with soulful brown eyes and a smile that can melt anyone's heart. Tristan is a mid scale Autistic with a mantra of showing the world that #AutismCan look up the hashtag and you will see he is proving it everyday! The movies gave Tristan Wainwright back his voice, especially the movie E.T. At age 2.5 Tristan stopped speaking by age 3 his speech was solely repeating movie lines until one day his father asked him a question, and he said a movie line back that was the appropriate answer to the question. In this eureka moment everyone knew he had found his way to reach the world. He has come a long way and has his own speech now but Tristan has had a long road in his short time on earth, at age 5 had to have his legs reconstructed, double ostonomies and metal plates in each leg, all the tendons lengthened and then in leg casts for months and had to learn to walk again. Tristan does not let this slow him down much though. At a young age it was found that Tristan had an uncanny ear for music and he can generally just hear something and sit and play it on piano he is not a savant but he has all the potential of becoming a great player one day (if his dad can get him to practice!) Tristan's likes include, cameras of any sort, anything Asian especially Japanese, attending the Joey Travolta Film Camp for Autistic Children in Pittsburgh, Pa. Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang (His mother calls him "Snoop" after the character due to his huge Peanuts collection, E.T. (also a growing collection) and virtually anything Steven Spielberg, John Williams whose influence started early with Tristan spending hours conducting the John Williams Orchestra in front of the television. Tristan is not only a joy to work with, a handsome, hard working, and naturally talented, young man but he is a genuinely good person. He regularly volunteers to help out with the Autism Society of SWLA, and other agencies locally, he cannot see an animal or person in need without helping in some way, and we have been told that he brings joy and hope to all that know him.