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In 2003
Chad moved back to
Los Angeles and started to focus
and a dream he had harboured for a long time – an own production company.
While in
New York, he and fellow actor
Robert Gant had come across a play called
Save Me. They read it for a theatre benefit, and fell in
love with the story of a gay and lesbian rehab center in
Texas, where men and women go
to become straight.
Chad contacted
producer Chris Racster and together with Robert Gant they formed the
production company Mythgarden. On explaining the vision behind
Mythgarden,
Chad said,
”Our company is entirely dedicated to turning the page on gay and lesbian
storytelling in film, television, and theatre. We believe that it's time
that our stories can be told fully: good relationships, real relationships,
honest characters, in all of the genres of storytelling-fantasy, fiction,
fairy tales, great mysteries, adventure films, and honest drama.”
In addition to starting a production company,
Chad kept busy on the
acting scene. He starred in
Paris, a gritty modern noir, about
a doomed love story of two people from very different worlds. The film
premiered in
New York on the Tribecca Film
Festival.
 In 2004/2005
Chad continues to
focus on his acting, and landed two very important roles in his career. One
dual part in the highly anticipated film
End of the Spear, which brought
Chad on location all the
way to
South America, to film one of the greatest
stories of forgiveness. The story was born from the death of five
missionaries, led by Jim Elliot and Nate Saint. In January 2006, 50 years
after the spearing, the feature length movie will release in theaters
nationwide.
The other part was as Donald Strachey, in
Third Man Out. Here TV a gay and lesbian television
network approached
Chad with the detective
story written by Richard Stevenson, and
Chad signed on to do 6
movies in the Donald Strachey Mystery Series.
My life experience has become so great, and I think that really fuels the
acting," says Allen. "You know, I've been working on my craft since I was
five years-old, and now that I'm another 10 years into it, I have the
experience of being open, and I can truly put all my experience into a
character without any hesitation or supplementation - ˜Third Man' is perhaps
one of the most honest portrayals I've ever been able to give as an actor.
Stage experience has been right up there, but creating Donald Strachey was
just oozing out of me."
In addition to these important roles,
Chad has managed to
squeeze in some interesting guest parts on television as well. In 2004 he
stepped back on the set of
NYPD Blue for a second time, and delivered a powerful
performance of a robber who picks up gay men, and ends up murdering one of
his victims. Another interesting role came in 2005 where he guest starred in
the CBS series
Cold Case. The episode entitled “Kensington” evolves
around a small town, and the murder of a young mill worker.
To be
continued
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