Derek M. Puma

Derek M. Puma is an American actor known for his Western style, his creative writing, and passion for storytelling. Puma was born in Rome, New York on December 24th, 1989. He is of Sicilian and Seneca Tribe (Haudenosaunee) decent.

Puma started out modeling at age 6 and during his childhood, his father owned a restaurant that was located downtown next to the local theater called 'The Capitol' where he enjoyed watching many live theatrical productions, and this exposure would interest him in acting doing school plays leading up to college. Puma took a film class in High school and while attending college at Mohawk Valley he minored in Theater where he focused on taking numerous acting classes. Puma also spent time as his school mascot 'Mo' the Hawk. He also took to the stage where he performed many community theatre productions.

In 2011, Puma was ready to make his on-screen debut which he was casted to play a major role for what would have been his first feature film called 'First Allies" based off of the book 'Forgotten Allies' which was the story about the Oneida Indian Nation's role during the Revolutionary War. But the film was placed on hold and would never happen. Two years later Puma would have another opportunity when an audition looked promising for a lead role in another major motion picture but plans for that film would fall thru.