T h e L i f e

Little is known about Timber Masterson's early life, though we know he's taught tennis at Club Med in the French West Indies, played piano at the Roosevelt Hotel, guitar at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, has thrown wild after-hours underground warehouse jams in Toronto and New York, toured an original Canadian play throughout one of the worst Newfoundland winters on record and wrote for Aaron Spelling while living in Dana Point, California. He has appeared on the Geraldo Rivera show during his life spent as a club kid in New York City, and has been a Bikram Yogi enthusiast in Orange County, CA.

Mr. Masterson is a remarkably charming fellow known to be an Actor, a Musician, a Writer, and a participatory journalist - a whip-smart improviser who presently resides in gorgeous Prince Edward County, a stone’s throw east of Toronto, Canada, and yes, it's a long story. “Are there no points for having survived New York and L.A.? Who do I talk to about such matters?” He published a mammoth memoir entitled, Timfoolery: Tales of a Third Rate Junkie, which received rave reviews, mostly from himself. He’s reported on fashion, celebrities, dairy barns and farm animals. He has donated his imaginative and heartfelt essays to many online literary journals, too numerous to mention in this shamelessly self-promotional and compelling biography. His writing has appeared in The National Post, The Montreal Gazette, Now Magazine, Pie Magazine, OC Metro, and, most recently, in WATERSHED MAGAZINE and KABIN and he also had monthly columns in Flare Magazine and Tribe.

He was co-producer and host of a once-a-month literary interactive gathering called Word Substance Spatula at Toronto's Drake Hotel - a kind of theatre-in-the-round for writers - and has appeared on stage, screen, and in the TV shows The Expanse, The Firm, Reign, My Babysitter's a Vampire and others, as well as the odd commercial promoting products he would never actually use himself. He has written/produced/hosted segments for the Vancouver-based entertainment program, Metro Café, as well as a self-produced show, Life on Timber Street, a program for which he also composed the theme music. That show is now being referred to as ‘The Lost VHS Tapes.’ (Please return if you come across them.) Masterson was also a regular, lively and animated guest, often invited to share his inspired stories on CIUT's 89.5 FM talk radio show, HOWL, with Nik Beat, and also recalls appearing at the 215 Festival in Philadelphia as well as The Moth in New York City to read his work to appreciative audiences, but he can’t be certain. Timber continues auditioning for projects, producing new music, crafting innovative and imaginative fresh stories, and piecing together the early stages of his podcast, This Canadian Life, now that he’s arrived at life’s next chapter, his magical new home in enchanting Prince Edward County, with his extraordinarily patient and hilarious muse, Kelly, and their charismatic and unique pooches, Rosie and Pippy, which is unbearably exciting, though, mostly just to Tim. His latest endeavour is producing and hosting the radio show, WONDEROUS WORDS & PROGRESSIVE MELODIES on 99.3 COUNTY FM, the voice of The County, an hour-long program that features eclectic music, diverse readings and the occasional interview.

Timber Masterson has not yet received an Emmy, an Oscar, a MacArthur Fellowship, or any other prestigious, fancy-shmancy artistic prizes. No one knows what the future holds for him.