Brenton Metzler

Brenton Metzler
Residence California, U.S.
Occupation Television Producer
Home town Yuma, Colorado, U.S.
Fort Morgan, Colorado, U.S.
Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle (2014)

Brenton Metzler is an American television producer. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle along with the rest of the crew of the HGTV show Elbow Room. He had a leading role in the documentary F(l)ag Football (2015).

Early life and education

Metzler was raised in Yuma, Colorado. His father is a farmer and Republican who also worked as an investigator in the Colorado Public Affairs Office. At the age of 16, Metzler moved to Fort Morgan, Colorado,[1] where he graduated from Fort Morgan High School in 1997.[2]

Career

After graduation, he moved to California to pursue acting but later left the profession. On the recommendation of a friend, Metzler worked as a production assistant for reality and talk television shows. Metzler started working as a field producer of season seven of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He later became a senior field producer of the series.[2] In 2015, he starred in the documentary, F(l)ag Football alongside Wade Davis, Cyd Zeigler, and Jared Garduno.[3] Metzler was a supervising producer of Tiny House Nation in 2015.[4]

Personal life

Metzler was worried about coming out as gay and originally intended on telling his family while he was in town for his 21st birthday. He later admitted that "I didn't get the nerve to tell anyone." Several years later, Metzler reported that "my sister is gay too, and we knew about each other...my parents called her and said 'We know you're gay, you can come out of the closet.' She replied: 'I'm not gay, but Brenton is.' She totally threw me out of the closet!" Metzler found that his hometown community was accepting of his orientation despite his initial apprehension.[1]

His advice to LGBT youth who feel alone or isolated: "The thing you don’t realize is that there’s somebody out there who is completely going to appreciate you for you. It might not be in the town you’re in, but you’ll find those people in your life, people who are genuinely drawn to what makes you you."[1]

Awards

In 2014, Metzler won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle along with the rest of the crew of the HGTV show Elbow Room.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yost, Mike (2014-05-22). "Gay Coloradan talks coming out, moving to Los Angeles, and working as a TV producer". OUT FRONT. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  2. 1 2 Barker, Dan (2012-01-06). "FMHS grad Brenton Metzler produces 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'". Fort Morgan Times. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  3. ↑ Jaworowski, Ken (2017-06-15). "Review: 'F(l)ag Football' Finds Gay Athletes Upending Stereotypes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  4. ↑ Yankova, Dessislava (2015-03-04). "Tiny house is big challenge for builders". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  5. ↑ Staff, Variety (2014-06-21). "'Sesame Street,' 'Ellen DeGeneres' Lead Daytime Emmy Creative Arts Winners (FULL LIST)". Variety. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  6. ↑ "Emmy Almanac 2014 Edition" (PDF).
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