Jason McCool

FREELANCE - (Commercial, Commercial - Non Union)

Male White

Black Blue 185lbs 6'2"

Men's M 10.5 42tall


Additional

accents: Boston, Irish, British, Southern, teleprompter, driver's license, car owner, piano & trumpet; excellent sight-reader, balancing beverages on my head

Film

RoleDirectorProduction
Happy Birthday Wes   Wes (lead) Joshua Miller C-I Studios
Eat, Sleep, Repeat   Jack (lead) Joshua Miller C-I Studios
Birds   Sandy Mark Betancourt Third Story Films
The Royal Tenenbaums   extra Wes Anderson Byron Crystal Casting (NYC)
Broken Snowflake   lead Garrett O'Brien American University MFA program

Television

RoleDirectorProduction
Fox5 morning show   myself Jon Gann DC Film Alliance
The Wire   police officer Pat Moran Casting
 
 
 

Stage

RoleDirectorProduction
Scenes From the Big Picture (HH nom., Wash Post "Top 10 Plays of the Decade")   Joe Hynes Des Kennedy Solas Nua
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Helen Hayes award)   ensemble Chris Gallu Catalyst Theatre
Dancing at Lughnasa   Michael (narrator) Mary Boyer T. Schreiber Studio (NYC)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Helen Hayes nom.)   Judas John Vreeke Forum Theatre
The Seagull on 16th St.   Yakov John Vreeke Theatre J
Riding The Bull (Wash Post Editors' Pick)   GL Mitchell (lead) Colin Hovde Riot Actors of Washington/Capital Fringe Fest

Commercial

RoleDirectorProduction
"Highway Watch"   trespasser EFX Media (via Central Casting)
Circuit City/AOL promo   on-camera host ThinkFilm
Dominion Power   "everyman" PSB (via Taylor Royall)
Virginia Lottery   Powerball James Bartolomeo Qorvis (via Taylor Royall Casting)
 

Print

RoleDirectorProduction
Dominion Power   "everyman" PSB (via Taylor Royall)
 
 
 
 

Training

Studio Theatre (Wash, DC): 3 yrs classes including Principles of Realism, Character & Emotion, Shakespeare, Greek, Voice, Directing. Teachers: Joy ZInoman, Denise Di, T. Schreiber Studio (NYC): 3 yrs classes including Advanced Scene Study, Acting for the Camera. Teachers include Mary Boyer, Peter Miner., Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY): bachelor's degree in jazz trumpet performance, admitted to Take 5 Scholars Program, University of Maryland, College Park: master's degree in historical musicology  
 

Other Special Skills

accents: Boston, Irish, British, Southern, teleprompter, driver's license, car owner, piano & trumpet; excellent sight-reader, balancing beverages on my head 
 

Special Skills