Staff Member Spotlight: ACTOR DEREK OELS

people from walks all over and would love to make it to the big screen. He has been in a few independent films, a commercial, many short films and student films.

He attended Allen- town Business School for Graphic Design for about a year until transferring to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and majoring in Liberal Arts and minoring in film production. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Art.

Derek Oels was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania but was raised in Emmaus, Pennsylvania about an hour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He first got his break acting as a main bad zombie in the 2008 independent film "Tues- day Morning" directed by Luke Ramer. Then he made a film called "Nightmares of the Dark" back in 2013 which wasn't even released due to the lack of funds. He also was in a Warner Bros Pictures documentary about the future of our climate change. He also filmed a feature film called "As It Comes" in 2016-2017. He has also had been in short films including: The Call, Driveway Light, Strictly Business, and a peanut butter and jelly commercial.

He hopes to gain respect from fellow actors, networking, socializing, meeting interesting

While in college, he was on the college football team and was in the Phi Kappa Sigma. Oels is definitely a star in the rise. With the right part, Oels would knock it out of the park.