Wade Gasque is a 2010 Nicholl Semifinalist for his screenplay, Half Truth. Since 2009, he has developed Half Truth through each of Film Independent’s Filmmaker Labs (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer). Also in ’09, he was a finalist in the Netflix Find Your Voice Competition. Film directing credits include the teaser trailer for Half Truth with Steakhaus Productions and the short film, The Hardest Job in the Business, with Marvin Acuna (The Great Buck Howard, Touched). Other directing credits include the 2007 season of City at Peace-LA, a non-profit that uses the performing arts to empower a diverse group of teens from across Los Angeles. In ’06, he directed the award-winning stage musical, The Ohmies, (NY Times “Best of the season!”) at the Geffen Playhouse, The Skirball Cultural Center and the Falcon Theatre. He was also co-director of The Ohmies Live on DVD produced by Herzog Cowen (Anchorman, HBO: First Look Series) in ’05. He has directed numerous solo shows and short plays in Los Angeles and New York. He wrote/directed the full-length play, The Allegory of Golf, with a run at the Flatiron Playhouse in New York in 2002. Also in 2002, his short plays, I Do Not Wish To See The Needle and The Sweater Issue, won Buffalo’s Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition and the Cleveland New Works Festival respectively. Before working as a stage and commercial actor for over 10 years, he received theatre scholarships to both Marymount Manhattan College and the College of Charleston and won the South Carolina Archibald Rutledge State Scholarship for Playwriting.