
April - May 2010 - Jason will play "Adam" in the world premiere of Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz at New Jersey Rep.
March 2010 - Jason's play Baltimore in Black & White will have readings on March 1st & 2nd at MTC. The readings will be directed by Jason's wife, Charlotte Cohn, and produced by TONY Award winning producer Richard Winkler (The Norman Conquests, Memphis).
January 2010 - An Off-Broadway benefit performance of Jason's play At A Loss will take place January 6th, 2010 at The Bleecker Street Theatre. Click HERE for tickets.
November 2009 - Jason's play At A Loss was selected to be a part of "Love & Licenses," the first theatrical venture for Artists 4 Israel.
October 2009 - Jason played the male lead in Philip Barry's Holiday as part of the Sunday reading series with The Actors Salon in Washington D.C.
July 2009 - Jason's newest novel
The Watershed Year is complete. His agent
will be submitting it to publishers this fall.
July 2009 - Jason and writing partner
Shawn Fagan
have completed a new comedic-horror screenplay. More info soon!
April 2009 - Jason now has a recurring
role on One Life to Live. Look for him
as (ironically enough) "Jason" the no-nonsense Bailiff
in many upcoming episodes.
March 2009 - Jason was cast in Tragic
Improv - not your momma's improv! Look for him in shows all
around NYC.
January 2009: Jason's play Baltimore
in Black & White was selected to be part of the
28th
Annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival. The reading was directed
by Jason's wife, Charlotte Cohn.
November 2008: Picture Day (the 2008
Student Academy Award nominated short film in which Jason played
the lead) had its first screening at The
Big Apple Film Festival in Tribeca.
November 2008: Jason wrapped another
lead role in an indie short called Passerine,
a quirky comedy written & directed by Densie Iris, winner of
the prestigious Sloan Foundation grant for this script, and produced
by Chip Hourlihan (producer of the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize
winning feature, Frozen River).
November 2008: The
Hindenburg Omen, an independent feature in which Jason played
the co-lead, had its first screening at the Queens
International Film Festival.
October - November 2008: Jason's
play At A Loss had its premiere showcase
production at Florida's Jewish
Cultural Arts Theatre.
October 2008: Jason's play Baltimore
in Black & White had a fully staged reading at
The New School for Drama Theatre. It was directed by Charlotte Cohn
and starred Kevin R. Free, Judy Jerome, Nedra McClyde, Edward O'Blenis,
Andrew Rein, Ross Beshear, Tai Verley and Kristen Cerelli.
September - October 2008: Jason shot
several Under-Five episodes on One Life to Live.
September 2008: Jason was cast in
the reading of new screenplay called Book of Water
by Bradford Tatum. It was directed by Jay Anania and performed at
this year's Hamptons
International Film Festival Screenwriters' Lab. In the screenplay,
which is about the life of Leonardo da Vinci, Jason played the heavy
supporting roles of Botticelli and Micaelangelo opposite Van Hansis
(As the World Turns, Die Mommie Die!) and Ron
Guttman (27 Dresses, August Rush, The Hunt for Red October).
September 2008: Jason's play
At A Loss had a staged reading at New
Jersey Rep. starring Charlotte Cohn and NJ Rep company members
Susan G. Bob, Brian O'Halloran, and Andrew Rein. It was directed
by Christopher Presley.
August 2008: Jason and his wife Charlotte
Cohn launched Look At Me
Films -- a new family portrait video service.
July 2008: Jason played "Milo
Minderbinder" & "Clevinger" among other roles
in a seven-actor version of Catch-22 with
The Aquila Theatre Company.
The production played at The Huntington Arts Festival in Long Island
and was directed by Aquila's Founder and Artistic Director, Peter
Meineck.
July 2008: Jason shot two more under-five
episodes of ABC's One Life To Live.
June 2008: Jason's play Baltimore
in Black & White was selected as the inaugural
reading for the Eos Theatre Company (Jeff Cureton, Artistic Director).
The cast included: Christopher Burris, Charlotte Cohn, Maria Dizzia,
Shawn Fagan, Kevin R. Free, Jason Munt, Charlie Parker, Dina Percia,
Kieana Richard and Josh Scheer.
June 2008: Jason shot another Under-Five
role on ABC's One Life to Live.
May 2008: Jason took part in the
readings of several new plays at Primary Stages. The new works were
written by Kate Bell, Richard Kollodge, Anne Reingold, and Joey
Schultz and were directed by David Caudle.
May 2008: Jason played the title
role in a reading from The Moral Education of Billy
Black, a new play by Alex Lippard presented at Primary
Stages. The reading, directed by Rob Urbinati, also starred Larry
Block, Paul Iacono, and Anjelica Torn.
May 2008: Picture Day,
a short film directed by Nick Paley from N.Y.U., was nominated for
a Student
Academy Award. In it, Jason plays the lead role of a gay school-portrait
photographer in rural Vermont who hires a punk girl to be his new
assistant.
March - April 2008: Jason played
the co-lead opposite Callen Williams in an independent feature film
entitled The
Hindenburg Omen directed by Frederic Colier.
March 2008: Jason had a reading of
his newest play, At A Loss, performed
at Primary Stages in Manhattan, directed by Chris Presley with OBIE
& Drama Desk Award Winner Marilyn
Chris, Charlotte Cohn, Steven Rattazzi and Chris Rosamond.
February 2008: Jason played a leading
role in the new play Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner?
at The Gene Frankel Theatre in Manhattan.
January 2008: Jason shot two days as an Under-Five
on ABC's One Life to Live.
November 2007: Jason acquired a literary
agent (Ryan Communications) for his novel, Verisimilitude,
about a woman in New York learning how to finally tell the truth
- in and out of her acting class. The manuscript is currently being
shopped around to publishers.
October 2007: Jason played the supporting
role of "The Curator" in a screenplay reading opposite
Christopher Walken, William H. Macy and Morgan Freeman. The new
comedy, called The
Lonely Maiden, was written by Michael LeSieur
and directed by Peter Hewitt.
August 2007: Jason had a reading
of his play Baltimore in Black & White
performed at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker with Charlotte Cohn, Bob
D'Haene, Brie Eley, Kevin R. Free, Laura Heisler, Tim McCracken,
Kevin McKelvy, Elan O'Connor, Charlie Parker, and Chris Stack.

Originally
from Columbia, Maryland, Jason is an actor, writer and director.
He has appeared on television, in several independent films as well
as off-Broadway and regionally at such theatres as Baltimore's Centerstage,
The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., The Actors Studio, The Daryl Roth
2 Theatre, The National Shakespeare Company, Heritage Repertory
Theatre in Virginia, and the Studio Theatre in D.C. where he played
the role of "Carter" in the smash hit regional premiere
of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig for which he
received rave reviews.
As a writer
and director, Jason's work has appeared at Primary Stages, Bleecker
Street Theatre, The Abingdon Theatre, Roy Arias, Interart Theatre,
The Producer's Club, and the historic Ensemble Studio Theatre, among
others. In 2002, Jason's first feature-length screenplay, The
Danish Play, was optioned by Emerald Oceans Media
Group in Denver. Jason directed a short version of his script, which
went on to win awards at The 2004 New York Short Film Festival,
The 2003 Philadelphia Short Film Festival, and the 2003 Denver Underground
Film Festival. Soon after that, several major production companies
requested to read his follow-up feature, the unique drama By
the Book.
Jason received a B.A. in Theatre from The University
of Virginia and an M.F.A. in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama
School in New York. Jason and his wife, Charlotte-Cohn,
live in Manhattan and are the proud parents of a beautiful little
girl, Imogen.
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