Xaque Gruber

Xaque pronounced Zack Gruber was born on a farm in Ohio and has since lived in New York Massachusetts Rhode Island Maine Florida and California He has written a few hundred articles for The Huffington Post mostly entertainmentrelated and has worked as Theatre Editor for the popular LA arts periodical Venice Magazine His first love was fine art and during his time as a student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn he realized his love for teaching art to children Immediately after graduating from Pratt in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing he moved to Massachusetts to study art education at Tufts UniversitySchool of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston In 1992 Xaque earned his first graduate degree art education with a concentration in K 5 Through the 1990s Xaque taught art in New England to thousands of schoolchildren primarily in Douglas Massachusetts and in the summers in Concord Massachusetts at the Middlesex School In 1999 he was nominated for Massachusetts Art Teacher Of The Year In 2000 he decided to shift gears and pursue a career writing for TV and film He was accepted to Boston Universitys College of Communications where he earned his second graduate degree MS in Television Production Xaque drove cross country in early 2002 to Hollywood to pursue a career writing for entertainment Soon after arriving he met his favorite movie actress Sally Kirkland at a gallery exhibition of her art and was hired on the spot to be her personal assistant Several months later he was hired by Henry Winkler and Michael Levitt to be their on set assistant for the final seasons of Hollywood Squares Through working for Winkler and Levitt Xaque was promoted to writer and amassed dozens of credits working in television His first primetime TV writing credit came with reuniting the cast of his favorite 1980s soap Dynasty for the 2006 CBS special Dynasty Reunion Catfights Caviar Other writing credits include crafting the questions Ryan Seacrest asks the stars on E Live From The Red Carpet and numerous awards shows His love for the state of Rhode Island where he lived in the 1990s inspired him to writeillustrate the published book A Big Adventure In The Smallest State A History of Rhode Island For All Ages Author House In 2013 he began working as Senior Publicist for Andrew Freedman Public Relations representing an array of top film television and theatre talent When his hands arent writing or painting they are modeling for commercials He is represented commercially by the Bobby Ball Agency In 2016 Xaque began working as a reporter and teaching art in Florida He is a freelance journalist for The Press Journal newspaper and teaches art workshops at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach Florida He is actively developing film and television projects with producers in Los Angeles and Europe