Allen James Teague
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Teague is a film maker, composer, writer, pianist and actor.
He has been a performing artist since 1986 and has enjoyed seeing just about all of the United States and Canada along with a lot of Europe and the UK.
According to Teague, the landscapes stay with him in photographs that he captured but his souvenirs are memories of the individuals who he has encountered and had the fortune of enjoying conversations with. "They have greatly enriched my life providing inspiration for my stories, musical sketches and compositions."
As a musician, Teague began the quest of mastering the musical talent within, at the tender age of two when he was presented with a miniature grand piano as a birthday gift from his beloved mother. With only 2 1/2 octaves at his curiosity, he quickly moved to an organ located in the spare bedroom. Fascinated by the rich and intense quality produced, he made a lifelong commitment to his passion of music, and his innate ability to create it.
Because of this early love of music, Teague has collaborated and performed with piano in much of the United States, Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Canada. To the tune of a few thousand performances.
Other than his love of music, above all else he loves people. Always in the mood for conversation, he creates musical sketches from stories he hears. Later, over coffee by the water, he transitions these stories into composition that take flight in the form of articulate contemporary sounds, tastefully entwined with the haunting quality of epic pieces from days gone by. His concerts are tailor made suits, cut from the cloth of adversity that delivers a passion unmatched by many, touching all who hear him play. He delivers his art form between stories about life with a heartfelt tendency. His audiences laugh a lot and cry a little too, leaving with a good memory and sharing an underlying pulse.
In 1999 and 2000, Teague founded and directed the Cusick Arts Festivals (Coats For Kids Benefits) in Cusick, Washington.
Teague took a six-year vacation from creativity beginning in 2002. In 2008, Rachael Lynee Burns (Miss Texas International), contacted Teague, asking for permission to use his composition "Tale of the Minstrel" for her "So You Think You Can Dance" audition. He said yes.
Within 1 week, choreographers and dancers in 7 states and 3 countries were working with Teague's music. This inspired him to begin composing for dance. Realizing what was happening, Teague began merging his original stories with his original music creating story ballets. Teague's first story ballet for 11 dancers "Temptation" premiered at the Wildish Theater in Springfield, Oregon April, 2011.
After deciding to return to creativity, he commercially released 2 solo piano Cd's, "A Poet's Heart" and "Falling Leaf and Sparrow" on his own label along with instrumental CD," Winter Rain".
Teague's music has been featured in 4 plays (one premiering in India (2002) and one in Finland (2014), 4 Italian TV shows (2006), A&E Channel documentary about the life and death of Anna Nichole Smith (2006), Public Television documentary about the Pen and Ink art of Dennis K. Joern (2007) and 12 of his recent compositions have been staged in ballet and modern dance performances.
His first book "Flying Machine" is seeking illustrations (2017).
Teague is writing and composing a full length children's story ballet about a faerie who has an adventure and composing for a full length story ballet about tragic love to be choreographed by Alexia Krijnsen in Madrid based on the story of Majnun and Layla (2017).
Teague is actively making films with "Fieldmouse Pictures" and "Teague Enloe Films".
He wrote, location scouted, produced, cast, directed, filmed and scored the short films, Bear Trap (2011), Somewhere In March (2011), Sleepwatch (2015) - winning best cinematography at Filmulate Dark Christmas Festival in Salt Lake City, co-written in part by Robert Moore, and Evelia (2016) - co-written and co-produced with Lula Enloe. He is editing and scoring short film There Are No Fireflies Here (2017) (written by Jim Duell) and short film Young Marty Reeves (2017).
Teague is producer, director, cinematographer, writer, casting director, editor and score composer for post apocalyptic feature films Jack (2017) and Lindsay (2017). He is in pre-production for post apocalyptic feature films Clyde (2018) - co-written with Jim Duell, The Prophet (2019) and The City of God (2020).
He is in pre-production for feature film Magdalene Blue (2017).
Writing script for feature comedy film The Dick (2017) Writing script for feature drama film The Muse (2018) Writing script for action feature film 1349 (2019) Designing sets and characters for a stop-motion film Rutger (2018).
He is in pre-production for feature film Magdalene Blue (2017).
Writing script for feature comedy film The Dick (2017) Writing script for feature drama film The Muse (2018) Writing script for action feature film 1349 (2019) Designing sets and characters for a stop-motion film Rutger (2018).