Following a successful fifteen-year career of owning and managing real estate businesses, Frank Attwood decided to reinvent his life and explore some of his ideas tied to this thing they were calling ‘The Information Age’.
One of those ideas was in the area of publishing educational information. Having worked closely with companies like AT&T, Westinghouse, Lockheed-Martin and AAA, he saw the important role education played in the buying decisions of not only families, but their employers as well. In 1991, drawing from his experience of self-publishing a book for the real estate industry, Attwood began publishing a magazine solely devoted to providing information on public and private education.

That same year with his background as a multi-business owner, manager and trainer, Frank began speaking and putting on seminars focused on personal development, sales and personal marketing. In early 1992 he decided to take a couple of acting classes to become a more colorful speaker…certainly not to become an ‘actor’.
However, as Attwood relates, “The next thing I knew I was on a movie set with Martin Sheen and Vince Van Patten.” The acting bug began to bite. Although only barely appearing in this film and one other with Denzel Washington, he has appeared in many independent films, industrial training films, numerous television commercials, voice-overs and several stage plays.

Attwood began writing, producing and acting in his own work following the sale of his magazine in 2003. To date, he has written three plays, “Thomas Edison…Man of the Millennium”, “I’ll Light Manhattan” and “Thomas Edison Invents!” The later was co-authored with Mark Brotherton; theater professor at UCF and premiered at the Orlando Repertory Theatre in 2006.

Most of Frank’s appearances as Thomas Edison are now at business conferences, conventions, schools, universities, clubs, civic and community organizations. His programs are custom tailored for each client, but always emphasize Edison’s hard work, ceaseless optimism and tireless stick-to-itiveness.
Attwood refers to himself as an ’actorpreneur’, who conducts his Edison productions as a business to inspire, educate and entertain audiences from a variety of fields and interests. As examples, Frank just returned from doing a program at Rutgers University in New Jersey for Dr. Paul Israel, director of The Edison Papers. This summer Edison will give a keynote address to New England’s 75 public power companies in Bretton Woods, NH.

And now, Thomas Edison…Man of the Millennium

Sit back, relax and picture yourself back in a time where there were no lights, no fast ways to communicate, no machines to play music and no moving pictures! Enjoy this intriguing story of how one man’s vision and relentless determination impacted mankind and changed our world forever!