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» Monday August 22, 2011 - 03:39 pm
Sleepaway Camp Star Jonathan Tiersten Coming To Austin
Join him on Saturday, August 27, at the Guadalupe Canoe Livery. Want to meet the star of one of the greatest horror movies of all-time? You can on Saturday, August 27, at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's slasher movie marathon at the Guadalupe Canoe Livery featuring the gore classics, The Burning, Meatballs 2, and Sleepaway Camp.
Jonathan Tiersten (aka cousin Ricky in Sleepaway Camp) will be there throughout the event to meet fans and perform cuts from his critically-acclaimed new CD, We'll See. The fun starts at 3:30 pm. The gore begins at dark! For tickets or more information, visit www.drafthouse.com and click on "Calendar," then on "The Alamo Goes to Camp" on 8/27.
Jonathan was only 17 when he was cast in the lead opposite Felissa Rose in the 1983 low budget thriller. He had previously only appeared in a Pepsi Cola commercial starring Gabe Kaplan of "Welcome Back, Kotter" and Bernard King of the Knicks—one of only 12 kids selected from his high school student body of 2000 after three grueling days of auditions. Even though there was no acting involved (all he had to do was spin a basketball on his finger), he "knew right then and there that I wanted to be an actor."
Despite having no speaking lines, Jonathan was able to sign with classmate Elizabeth Shue's manager, who set him up to audition with Sleepaway Camp director Robert Hiltzik. Instead of having Jonathan read 'lines,' however, Hiltzik "asked me to tell him off. I said, 'Really?' Then he asked me to talk about my own town as if I was a newscaster. I was in there maybe 20-25 minutes."
Hiltzik gave him the role without a single 'reading.' "When he showed me the script, he said they wanted to make the most twisted movie ever and to let him know if I had any other ideas. After read it, I'm going, ummmm, I think you already did pretty much make the most twisted movie ever!," Jonathan says with a laugh.
When it came time for college, he surprised everyone around him when NYU accepted him into its elite and the program—"much to my guidance counselor's chagrin, because he told me flat out, in front of my parents, at my house, that I didn't have a prayer to get in. He said there was no way, I didn't have the SATs. You don't have the grades. When I got in, he said you must have given one hell of an audition," Jonathan relates with a grin.
The program was so intense, however, that out of 125 students in his freshman class, Tiersten was one of only 20 who graduated. Throughout school, he supported himself through commercials and a co-starring role in the Emmy-winning ABC After-School Special, Seasonal Differences, starring Uta Hagen, Melba Moore, Gabrielle Carteris and Frank Whaley. Tiersten also appeared in several episodes of the daytime soap, Another World.
Meanwhile, he began performing on the Greenwich Village folk-rock/roots rock circuit as one-half of the acoustic duo The Magic Box. Then came the opportunity to play a gig in Ft. Collins, Colorado, where he settled over a decade ago. "I fell in love with the place. It was just totally different. I had always lived in cities."
Over the years, Jonathan opened a beer bar/live music venue called The Mountain Tap Tavern, which attracted its share of well known artists (including Dishwalla, David Gray and Victor Wooten), later selling it to devote more time to his own music. His contributions to the Colorado music scene have included everything from solo performances to AC/DC and Black Sabbath cover bands to the alternative rock outfit Bambi's Apartment (which he co-led with guitarist/singer Micah Stone). Jonathan (whose first solo album, Heaven, was released in 1998) also has been a member of the alternative funk-rock band Gaphiltaphunk, and currently leads the band TEN TIERS, whose debut album, Don's Club Tavern, Part 1, was released in 2006.
Jonathan can be seen next in two highly-anticipated independent films, The Perfect House and Redemption. The first, a horror thriller, will premiere on Facebook's Flick Launch on October 1 for 750M+ Global Users on the film's Fanpage/Online Movie Theater. In it, Tiersten plays an unstoppable maniacal killer with a sly sense of humor who enjoys terrorizing his victims. "John Doesy is an insane sociopath who sees himself as a performance artist. My wife saw a clip of The Perfect House and said, 'You are absolutely terrifying in that role,'" he says. For more information, visit facebook.
In the psychological thriller, Redemption, Jonathan plays a predator who pimps underage girls he recruits through social media. "My role concludes with an amazing choreographed chase and fight scene that took two nights to shoot. I was bruised and battered, but I would love to continue to do my own stunts," he says. Redemption was directed by Tim Martin Crouse and co-stars George Loros (Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto in HBO's The Sopranos), Meredith Ostrum and Barry Primus. It is rumored to be debuting at The Tribeca Film Festival next year.
Jonathan also has a critically-acclaimed new CD, We'll See (Edward Records), which has been called "an earthy blend of roots rock, folk-rock and adult alternative pop-rock that is at once contemporary and timeless." The album was added to ALL ACCESS Music Group's "AAA "Cool New Music's" list by former Billboard executive John Schoenberger and named Goldmine Magazine's Pick Of The Week. Among other praise, AOL City's Best says Tiersten is "the kind of artist who can seamlessly move from grungy rock to folksy reflection, and does so appealingly." Shakefire.com rated the EP "simply amazing….If you're into artists like Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, or in some ways Jeff Buckley, chances are you'll enjoy this album. Definitely worth checking out if you've had enough with the cookie cutter music that you hear on the radio day in and day out. Grade: A." Mike Abrams of Sirius XM noted: "Nothing beats JT's work... It is so good to hear QUALITY music from an artist. ... Nothing scary about it." The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "If you haven't heard Jonathan Tiersten sing, you're only cheating yourself." Dan Herman at Radio Crystal Blue recently awarded it "Debut of the week." The single Vertigo has been getting regular airplay on both NPR and AAA stations nationally. And the first song on the album, In The Air, is also the theme song for The Perfect House.
                    
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