Jeffrey David Thomas
- Writer
- Actor
Jeffrey David Thomas was born in 1982 in Charleston, West Virginia, and moved to
the small town of Hurricane, WV in 1986. In 1996, he earned a role in
The Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in a reenactment. Jeff graduated
in 2000 from Teays Valley Christian School, and spent the next five
years studying English and Communications at West Virginia State
University. Out of school, Jeff got a job working as a television news
photojournalist at WCHS in Charleston. He also started his professional
wrestling career at this time. He covered the Sago mine disaster on
January 2, 2006, with some of his early, on-the-scene footage picked up
by national news. Later that year, he moved to Radford, Virginia to work at
WFXR in Roanoke, where he produced three "doctor on call" segments and
the "Out and About with Natalie Faunce" series every week. In March of
2007, an on the job back injury left him without employment. Once
recovered, he spent the following six months on the road, wrestling
across nine different states five days a week, trying to kick-start a
full time wrestling career. In April, he caught a freelance gig
covering the Virginia Tech Massacre in Blacksburg, Va for his old
station, WCHS. After suffering a serious head injury in September of
that year, Jeff spent three months recovering and contemplating his
future. He then got a job at WDBJ's Blacksburg bureau, shooting news,
while applying to grad schools. After a wedding on June 28, 2008, he
and his wife, Devin, picked up and moved to Los Angeles, where he
enrolled at the University of Southern California in the M.F.A.
Screenwriting program.
