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In 2001, he shot the feature thriller "Mortuary" while simultaneously appearing in the world premiere of Ronnie Larsen's stage play "A Few Gay Men," driving back and forth from the film's set in Marin County to Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. He describes this period as "one of the happiest times of my life.".

His surname is pronounced with a "long A" like the word "acorn" - not like the word "accord."

Moved to Los Angeles in 2004. In 2005, he was invited to become a member of Company of Angels Theatre, Los Angeles' longest-running repertory theatre company. In 2007, he joined the Celebration Theatre company in Hollywood.

He made his professional show business debut at age 19 with a nightclub act in Indianapolis, Indiana, which he performed for six months. Being under drinking age, he was forbidden to actually enter the bar, and hid out in the dressing room between sets.

There was debate between Some Prefer Cake director Heidi Arnesen, writer Jeannie Kahaney & Acord regarding how "gay" to play "Devon." They saw the character as more flamboyant, which he resisted. They compromised by allowing him to play lighter opposite the two female leads, but more grounded in scenes with Devon's boyfriend, played by DeVone Minters.

In the final scene, in which Devon describes seducing the man who stole his boyfriend, Acord insisted on adding the line "I'm kidding! I'm kidding!" so his character would not be perceived as overly promiscuous.

In 2009, Acord became a Resident Member of Edgemar Center of The Arts' Theatre Group in Santa Monica.

Co-owns, with partner Laurence Whiting, the production company Larilee Productions, which produced such plays as "Carved in Stone", "Last Sunday in June", and "The Butterfly Effect: An All-Star Gala" (for the Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Fund), as well as the short films "OUT" and "Proverbial Cup O' Coffee".

Acord took 2018 and 2019 off from film work to write his memoir "Sub-lebrity: The Queer Life of a Show-Biz Footnote" due out in Summer 2020.