Phoenix, Arizona · Camera crew · Fourteen

Jack Dearing

Runs the cameras and the whole video system at Dearing Acting Studio. Plays basketball, trains, codes, makes movies, acts. Built a game for this page so his friends have something to lose at.

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Illustration of Jack Dearing, fourteen, auburn hair and freckles in a white tee, behind a cinema camera at Dearing Acting Studio, with his Labradoodle Wallace beside him and a clapboard reading Director: Jack, Camera: Wallace.

CrewTwo years on the cameras

Illustration of Jack Dearing leaning on a cinema camera on a tripod under a studio light.

Jack has worked at Dearing Acting Studio for more than two years. He runs the cameras, the switcher, the audio and the whole video system on class nights, live shows and shoots. When something in the booth breaks at 6:55 on a Friday, he is the one who fixes it.

He also acts. Growing up inside a studio does that. He can read a scene from behind a lens and from inside it, which is rarer than it sounds.

RoleCamera and video systems

SinceTwo years and counting

StudioDearing Acting Studio, Phoenix

AlsoBasketball, training, code, movies

GameBuilt for the iPad

Jack asked for a game his friends could play with him. This is it. It runs right here, no download, best on an iPad turned sideways.

Jack's gameTap to start · works on iPad and desktop

IntoWhat fills the week

BasketballTrainingGamingCodingMaking moviesActingCamera work

WallaceThe doodle

Illustration of Wallace, a grey merle Labradoodle with tan legs and a blue collar, sitting beside a cinema camera under studio lights.

Wallace is a Labradoodle. Grey merle curls, tan legs, a blue collar, and a head tilt he uses when he wants something, which is always. He is not on the crew. He thinks he is.

If Jack is home, Wallace is within four feet of him. That is the whole arrangement.

AboutJack Dearing

Jack Dearing is fourteen and lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He is part of the crew at Dearing Acting Studio, where he has run cameras and the video system for more than two years. He plays basketball, trains, games, codes, makes movies and acts. He is one of five Dearing kids: his sister Rosalyn Dearing hosts a drawing show, his brother Finn Dearing Beau Dearing has a ninja course, his mom is Leeann Dearing and his dad is Matthew Dearing. Every picture of Jack on this site is a drawing.