Jason Odell Williams is an American

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

and

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. He is from

Columbia, Maryland Columbia is a planned community in Howard County, Maryland, United States, consisting of 10 self-contained villages. With a population of 104,681 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the second-most-populous community in Maryland ...

. Jason received his BA from the

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and his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School in

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. Jason currently lives in

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with his wife, actress and singer Charlotte Cohn, and their daughter, Imogen.

Works

Jason Odell Williams is an Emmy® Award nominated writer and producer. His play ''Handle With Care'' opened Off-Broadway at The Westside Theatre on Dec. 15, 2013 starring Broadway legend

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, directed by Karen Carpenter, and was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. ''Handle With Care'' has also been produced at The Kitchen Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, JCC Centerstage, The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Co., Theatre Jacksonville, Actors’ Summit, Teatron Toronto, and was recently optioned for a film. His other plays have been produced at the DR2 (starring

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and Anatol Yusef from HBO's ''

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''), the cell, Fells Point Corner Theatre and The American Globe Theatre. His work has been developed at Primary Stages, The Lark, The Blank, NJ Rep, Theatre Raleigh, Midtown Direct Rep and The Hudson Valley Writers’ Workshop where he won first prize in the 2012 New Play Competition. Previous readings and workshops have starred Tony winner

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, Tony nominee

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, and film and TV star

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. Williams is currently a writer and producer of the National Geographic Channel's hit TV series '' Brain Games''. His first novel, ''Personal Statement'', published by In This Together Media in August 2013, was optioned for a three-picture deal, and books two and three in the series are in development. Williams lives in Manhattan with his wife, Charlotte Cohn, and their daughter, Imogen.Playbill for ''Handle With Care'' at The Westside Theatre

Plays

* ''Church & State'', a play about gun control, premiered in Los Angeles in 2016, and opened in New York in 2018.

References

External links

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