Sex. Love & Choices....helping today's teens CHOOSE ABSTINENCE

Anthony Preston, Program Director

Anthony has been pursuing a career in acting since he shot his first home movie on his parent’s video camera when he was eight years old, in the modest Midwestern town of Oakville, St. Louis, Missouri’s suburbia. Throughout childhood, he appeared in many local theatrical productions before spending much of his high school years traveling with his choral group and performing in musical theater. At age 19, Anthony won the “American College Theater Festival” Award for outstanding dramatic performance in a theatrical production his sophomore year. He also wrote for and was the lead singer in a band that he and fellow classmates formed in the semesters to follow.

Growing up in Missouri, the oldest of three and son of a 100% Italian mother, Anthony became fond of sports and other extra curricular activities along with acting. Being coached by his father year round, Anthony participated in baseball, basketball, and soccer. Although the latter were among his favorites, nothing gives him a thrill like his favorite past time of water skiing. Along with keeping in shape, he enjoys home restoration as well as tinkering with classic cars. His other interests include art, which he is particularly fond of due to much time spent drawing on his uncle’s graphic design table as a child. Music began to call to Anthony after piano lessons and singing background vocals in the church’s youth band. Guitar is now his instrument of choice.

Today, Anthony continues to share not only his views on abstinence, but also those on domestic discipline and abortion with such TV shows as “Si” TV’s “Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.” In his free time he speaks to grade school students about the importance of having a dream and occasionally visits the drama classes for a state of the art testimony of life in the industry. Currently he coaches friends and colleagues on their auditions and hopes after his career has gone main stream to have a drama and music school of his own, allowing minorities and underprivileged kids the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

“From Stanislavski to Shakespeare, from Orson Wells to O’Connor, without art, without some vibrant form of expression, we cease to really exist. We all die. We don’t all have the chance to really live . . . and most of us are just never shown how.”

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Program Director, Anthony Preston
apreston@slcwebsite.com