Who Is Vincent Metzo?

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Writer, performer, singer, visual artist, teacher, and physical culturist; Vincent grew up in NYC, went to art school, drama school, graduate school, and the school of the lower east side club scene.  Raised as a latchkey kid in an artist housing complex in lower Manhattan during the 1970s and 80s, Vincent watched a lot of TV. He has a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Exercise Physiology. Performing in punk bands, off and off-off Broadway, in experimental theater, and his young years traveling the country in a VW-bus influence his story telling.

Raised as a latch key kid in New York City during the 1970s and 80s, Abbot and Costello, The Dead End Kids, Star Trek, Kolchak The Night Stalker, Chiller and Looney Toons formed Vincent’s early aesthetic. This was tempered by an artistic family, including a painter grandfather, Shakespearean actor father, and illustrator and teacher mother. Growing up in an artist housing complex in lower Manhattan, indulging in the recreational substances of the day and embracing the music scene first as a fan and then as a performer molded the rhythms and beats in Vincent’s head.

After acting school and post-graduate studies in Exercise Physiology, Vincent combines mystery, sci-fi, horror, and a respect for the intelligence and the investment of time that readers put into his work. Guided by his 99cent Ethic, the principle that like penny dreadfuls, agit-pop, pulp fiction, comic books, grind house, and punk rock, art should be by and for the people, be easily made, consumed, entertaining and ultimately help to form and direct the collective conscience.