Jason O'Connell

Jason is thrilled to be returning for his second season with HVSF, after appearing in 2008's Cymbeline and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Shakespearean credits include the title role in Richard III and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival); Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor (American Players Theatre); Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and the title role in Hamlet (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Other credits include Ten Unknowns at Florida Studio Theatre; All the Great Books at Delaware Theatre Company; and All My Sons at Arkansas Repertory Theatre. In NYC, Jason has performed at The Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Symphony Space, and Caroline's Comedy Club, among others. In the last year, Jason appeared on Law & Order: SVU; played Richard Nixon opposite Christine Lahti and Wendie Malick in Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas; appeared in John Christian Plummer's play Rendition in Damascus at Garrison's Philipstown Depot Theatre; and traveled to China to play Edgar in King Lear at Beijing's Peking University. Much thanks to Terry and John, my family and my Kate.