Tyler Cochran - Profile
<p>Born 4/9/85 in Fort Worth, Texas. I'm one of those people who made the long, hard struggle to Texas Christian University all the way from R.L. Paschal High School. "Cochran" (pronounced cock-ren) is Scottish; it was probably made up by some Immigration Officer at Ellis Island one day who said, "Hey, here come some more Scotts! Let's give them real stupid last names!" I prefer being on a first name basis with everyone if only because "Tyler" is easier to spell.</p>
<p>At about age eight, I decided I would love to be a professional advertiser and that, by God, was that. Have never had a "Plan B" since. My decision was only reinforced when the Fort Worth-Star Telegram let me be a student writer and I jumped to the conclusion, sadly erroneous, that all journalists get paid the big bucks.</p>
<p>Started acting my senior year of high school but didn't figure as that for a career since the business, I thought, was wholly in New York and didn't cotton to outta-towners. It turned out that was only partly true — and would become even less true as the years went by. Graduated high school in '03, became an account executive/copywriter/graphic designer for a student run ad agency and got cast in a whole mess of shows both college and professional, and have never been without work since.</p>
<p>The day of my first college class, I met Becca, one of the true geniuses of my lifetime. Soon after, I met Bethanne, a non-theatre person whom I classify under my foreign group of friends even though she is from Missouri. These friendships still remain strong today. Their personalities and wisdom has been invaluable, for reasons I am still coming to appreciate more each day.</p>
<p>About the same time, I started to become more involved with Theatre TCU — that is, meeting even more lifelong friends like Sarah, Jessica, Katie, Michelle, Cristin, Desmond, Brock, Ryan, Jule, Karen, Daniel, Eric, Emily, Olivia and countless others. This led to some interesting but always rewarding socializing, which were further brought together with the involvement in various productions such as Anything Goes, Noises Off, Cabaret and You Can’t Take It With You. This, in turn, led to me creating even more friendships only with Ad/PR folk — primarily the Real World bunch (Emily, Bethany, Mallory, et al) but also Heather, Missy and others. It was only Jeramey and Brian that helped me to add testosterone to the primarily female agency. The females made me laugh and smile perhaps too much.</p>
<p>This has probably gone on long enough, especially since browsing this profile page will tell you a lot more about me than you could possibly care to know. Hell, there's more here about me than I want to know...</p>