Ran Barker

Ran Barker grew up on his families Farm/Ranch in West Texas. He graduated from Tarleton State University/Texas A&M and moved to Los Angeles in 1989 to pursue an acting career. He studied film at UCLA and AFI and appeared in over 100 national commercials, feature films and TV series before joining Warner Bros. in 1989 to became Department head of Corporate Services for 6 years before becoming Administrator of TV in 1994, working on ER (1994), Friends (1994), Living Single (1993), Suddenly Susan (1996), and 30 other shows. In 1997, he went to work with John Wells Productions and worked on the productions of ER (1994), Trinity (1998), The West Wing (1999), and Third Watch (1999). He left JWP in 1999 to do indie films such as Border to Border (1998), Game Day (2000), Fugly (2001) and Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want (2000), Apple Jack (2003), Puzzled (2001) and Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O. (2002). His projects have won several film festivals including Best Comedy -- New York Int'l Film Festival, Best Film -- Las Vegas Int'l Film Festival and Top 10 finalist in Project Greenlight. He worked on the new Margaret CHO concert film shot in May 2003.