Collin Pemberton is a multifaceted filmmaker and actor from Lone Jack, Missouri. He fell in love with art at a young age and quickly had his sights set on advancing his creative skills. He took choir and theater classes, joined the cast and crew of plays and musicals, became an improv team captain as well as a member of the National Honor Thespian Society.
He began to fall in love with all forms of storytelling and the various ways you can capture human emotion. He began developing his first TV show idea in the 8th Grade. In 2019, he won the Cappie Award for Best Ensemble Performance. In 2021, he starred, wrote, and directed a play for his high school called A Night of Mystery, as well as assisting in creating an original musical based on The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
This era in life inspired him to pursue a higher education in storytelling and he began studying film in university. He found the joy of working on set and being a part of a film crew. The fast paced environment led him to love problem solving, so he quickly fell into AD and Producing positions in fellow students projects. In 2023, he directed his first short film What If? and starred in his first feature film Belladonna. So far in 2024, the short film he starred in Off The Menu won Best Student Short at The Los Angeles Film & Script Festival.