Jeff Swerdan was born in Traverse City, Michigan on November 30th, 1981 but grew up in Flint, MI. In 1988 Jeff went to his very first movie in a theater: Walt Disney's Oliver and Company. That was all it took for Jeff to fall in love with movies.While attending Beecher High School in Flint, Jeff also took acting classes at the University of Michigan and was involved with performing arts workshops during the summers at Michigan Tech University.After graduating high school in 1999 Jeff found himself in Orlando, Florida where he started working at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. Here Jeff began to really focus on writing, acting and entertaining and in 2006 Jeff filmed his first two short films and hasn't looked back.Since returning to Michigan in 2007, Jeff has been focused on writing, directing and producing movies through his production company VernaJune Entertainment, which is named after his two grandmothers.