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Wanna see how Tessa describes herself? "Filmmaker Tessa Blake was born in Houston in 1969, and reared between Texas, Colorado, and Europe. The combined elements of her parents' divorce and her extensive education exposed Tessa to a remarkable variety of cultures and lifestyles from an early age. Experience from the provincial to the cosmopolitan taught Tessa to become something of a social chameleon, and she is as comfortable in Houston's fashionable River Oaks as in New York's funky Greenwich Village. It is this unique sensibility that makes Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me such a candid look at the secret world of Houston's upper crust.
Tessa's childhood afforded her enormous exposure to new and different experiences. She attended kindergarten and primary schools throughout the US and Europe. Sent to boarding school in Scotland at the age of eight, Tessa spent two years enrolled at the Gordonstoun School in Aberlour-on-Spey. She returned to the States at ten, and attended Aspen Country Day School for the next four years. High school yielded a return to boarding school, this time at Connecticut's Choate Rosemary Hall. Accepted as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tessa majored in English and Classics. She was graduated with honors, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991.
Having acted in and directed both theater and television productions in Chapel Hill, Tessa went on to graduate study in New York. At Parson's School of Design, she had her first taste of filmmaking, directing the comic short, Stone's Throw. Later, at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she met legendary theater director Richard Schechner and agreed to join his fledgling East Coast Artists as Executive Director in 1993."
Salon editors, please stop publishing these icky, self-absorbent diatriabes from trustifarians. I wanna read more about people who do real, meaningful things such as the woman who used to detail her experience as a court-appointed child advocate.
