Lj Presents: Skyler Cooper

SKYLER COOPER IS AN AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER, ACTOR AND ACTIVIST Skyler was recently voted one of Autostraddle’s 100 LGBTQ People You Should Know. Cooper is an influential transgender pioneer in the arts and has received critical acclaim for his gender-bending live and film performances. Currently Cooper is in development of his next film, Worthy of Survival. Cooper marked his directorial debut with Hero Mars, a beautifully cinematic and thought-provoking award-winning short film of which he also wrote, produced and starred. As an actor, Cooper received accolades for his revolutionary adaption playing Othello as a female commander. He has appeared in the films Elena Undone, The Owls and The Insomniacs, and on television in RuPaul’s Drag U. Skyler trained in classical and contemporary theater for 3 years in San Francisco. He studied acting with Phillip Bennett, founder of The Bennett Theater Lab, and Amy Mueller. He then went on to begin an internship with California Shakespeare Company and rounded out his training with speech and vocal coaches at American Conservatory Theater. Cooper, a Gulf War veteran, practicing Buddhist and lover of tango, can often be found leading women and men at milongas in the Bay Area when not working on his next gender-ation film. You can check me out on my website at ljeffreymoore.com Music for Lj Presents is by I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode