Mantis has been involved with the Entertainment Industry for over 50 years, far behind the scenes.
His main duty is to:
1) create semi-non-plausible interpersonal dynamics within outlandish paradigms utilizing situational dichotomy.
2) calculate plausible results from conceptual data-streams determining viability.
Specialties: Concept/Character Development of High Budget Movie productions, Script Consulting, TV Production.
At 8 years old, while with his father at what would become Beefsteak Charlie's in Framingham, Mass on a weekend morning, Mantis met a principle executive and advised him on several points of production for a little movie he was making called Jaws.
In 2012 Mantis spent the week after Delta Generators season opener in the hospital having/recovering from brain surgery. He was released from the hospital two hours before arriving in the studio for The Hollow Glow episode.
In October 1992 Mantis was hit head-on by a mini-van while crossing Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. While he was temporarily "Out of Body", he was fine the next morning when released from the hospital with nothing but scratches from head to toe.
Mantis has a blend of 8 Nationalities recorded since the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Mass.
We start with John and Priscilla Alden and add Native, Scottish, Welch, French, Irish, Portuguese and Syrian.