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``X-Files'' Actor Joins Back Stage West Actorfest '99.


LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1999--Actor Chris Owens Chris Owens may refer to:
  • Chris Owens (actor) (born 1961), Canadian television actor
  • Chris Owens (basketball) (born 1979), American basketball player
  • Chris Owens (burlesque performer), American burlesque performer in New Orleans
, who plays Special Agent "Jeffrey Spender Special Agent Jeffrey Spender is a character in the science fiction Fox TV series, The X-Files. Biography
Jeffrey Frank Spender is the son of the Cigarette Smoking Man (AKA C. G. B. Spender), and CSM's ex-wife, multiple abductee Cassandra Spender.
" on the successful Fox-TV series "The X-Files," has joined Back Stage West's Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the acting profession -- Actorfest '99: A Day For Actors -- slated Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at The Hilton Universal City & Towers, 555 Universal Terrace Parkway in Universal City.

Owens, who just joined the cast this season as a regular on the series, has appeared on more than 40 television series and movies including another Chris Carter Chris Carter may refer to:
  • Chris Carter (screenwriter), American television screenwriter and producer who created the X-Files
  • Chris Carter (actor/screenwriter), Canadian television screenwriter and actor
 (creator of "The X-Files") series, "Millennium." Other recent credits include "Psi Factor," "Stargate SG-1" and "Their Second Chance."

Owens will join actor Adam Springfield, "David" of the highly acclaimed PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

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." Springfield's other credits include "SeaQuest" and "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ("MMPR") is an American live-action television series, created for the American market, based on the sixteenth installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. ."

Owens and Springfield will join a cast of other fellow actors on the 9 a.m. Actorfest panel titled "The Actor's Series -- Your Regular TV Role Network Break."

This panel, which kicks off the full-day event, will help actors learn about making a living as an actor -- from bit-part actor turned regular cast member on an ongoing television series...an actor's dream! From the constant script changes, character development and growth, to dealing with "being recognized" by the audience, these actors will share their knowledge, experience and tales of this much- sought-after realization of making a living as an actor with a steady paycheck.

More than 1,600 attendees are expected to attend this special five-year anniversary-marker event, which expands with pride after acquiring Back Stage West's 26-year competitor, Drama-Logue.

Actorfest '99 is being joined in this celebration with sister publication, "The Hollywood Reporter," who will host an agents panel.

Other first-time-ever highlights of this year's event will be 21 hours of advice from Hollywood's hottest casting directors. This simultaneous three-room running series is titled "Casting Directors -- Up-close and Personal": An intimate one-hour session with Hollywood's Hottest Casting Directors to ask the questions you've always wanted to ask. A partial list of the participants include:

CSA's Mark Teschner ("Port Charles" and "General Hospital"); CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology.  President Beth Hymson-Ayer ("Xena/Hercules"); Theater/Film/TV-Independent Casting Director Richard DeLancy; CSA Commercial Casting Director Jessica Overwise; Eddy Foy III ("Beyond Belief"); and Dick Clark Productions' Lila Selik ("Boys of Summer," "America's Most Wanted For the professional wrestling tag team, see .

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" and many others).

For more information on Actorfest '99, stay tuned to the Web site at http://www.backstage.com.

For exhibitor, ticket and event information, call 323/525-2225.
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