Jason McCool comes from a long line of people who have been asked, “is that your real last name?” Originally from Brockton, MA, Jason holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (jazz trumpet) and the University of Maryland (historical musicology). Now a part of the vibrant theater community of Washington, DC, Jason’s recent work includes Riding the Bull, which he produced and acted in for the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival (selected as an Editors' Pick of the Washington Post), as well as the title role in Forum Theatre's acclaimed production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, named as “Audience Favorite Play” for 2008 on DCTheatreScene.com, and nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Ensemble. Other favorite work includes Scenes from the Big Picture with Solas Nua (named by the Washington Post's Peter Marks as "One of the Top 10 Plays of the Decade" and nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for ensemble), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Catalyst Theatre (winner, Helen Hayes Award for ensemble), and Dancing at Lughnasa at the T. Schreiber Studio in NYC. He has appeared with Studio, Folger, Everyman, Rorschach, and Journeymen Theatres, Theater J, Washington Shakespeare Company, and at the Kennedy Center. Jason studied acting at the T. Schreiber Studio in NYC and The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory in DC, where he also completed a semester-long directing seminar with Studio Theatre founder Joy Zinoman. He is very happy to be a company member with Solas Nua, the only organization in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts. Since 2006, Jason has been an Adjunct Professor of Music at Montgomery College, Rockville and at the Art Institute of Washington in Arlington, VA. Follow Jason on Twitter here, and contact him by e-mail here. (Here is his IMDB entry, and here is his Casting Frontier entry.) Jason is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, the union for professional actors. Finally, and perhaps most important, he is the proud owner of Fenway, the cutest dog in the entire world.
