Jason (he/him/el) is a New York-based Mexican-American director, bookwriter, and choreographer, specializing in new musical development and reinvestigating the traditional American book musical. 

 

As a director, Jason is a SDCF Fellow – mentored by Susan Stroman, a member of the Directors Group at Roundabout Theatre Company, a graduate of the George and Joy Abbott MFA in Musical Theatre Collaboration at Temple University, and a recipient of Temple University’s Future Faculty Fellowship. He has studied with The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings, and the Broadway Dance Center Professional Semester.

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Recent credits include The Evolution of (Henry) Mann, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter and The Starcatcher, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

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As a writer, Jason is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop, and a founding member of Theatre Now’s National Musical Writers Group. Musicals in development include Sick Moves! (or The Dancing Plague of 1518) – a pop/rock musical comedy reimagining of the mysterious dancing plague, Turing and the Poison Apple – An electro-pop fairytale chronicling the heroic life and villainous death of mathematics genius Alan Turing, Disco Destruction – Inspired by the 1979 Disco Demolition event at Comiskey Park which marked, for many, the end of the Disco Era, and BrandedTM! – a Sci-Fi musical comedy about identity politics in the 21st Century.

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As an artistic leader, Jason is the Artistic Producer and Co-Founder of UNTITLED Musical Project which is dedicated to providing space for marginalized musical theatre writers of BIPOC/Global Majority, LGBTQIA+/Queer, and their intersecting identities to develop their work and engage in supporting and critiquing their colleague's work. He is also the Artistic Producing Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre.

 

Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographer Association.