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L.A. based writer Jason A. White recently finished his directorial debut with the short film, The Hit, which premiered at the Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying 2020 L.A. Shorts International Film Festival and is on the film festival circuit, playing currently at the HollyShorts Monthly Screenings in January and scheduled to play at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in March. The film was a finalist at Beyond the Curve and Lit Laughs and recently garnered Best Score at the Short and Sweet Film Festival.

Apart from developing numerous feature-length screenplays, TV and Web series, he co-wrote the 2012 indie feature film Silver Case (which featured Eric Roberts and Seymour Cassel). Staffed on various sitcoms and a dramatic series including Emily’s Reasons Why Not, Twins, Committed, Kyle XY, Madigan Men (with Gabriel Byrne), The Downer Channel (with Wanda Sykes and produced by Steve Martin), he’s also worked on a number of pilots including Late Boomers (with Scott Bakula), The Lunchbox Chronicles (with Monica Potter and Andy Richter) and The Untitled Janeane Garofalo Pilot. 

He has written web-content for ABC Family, punch-up comedy and wraparounds for the Discovery Channel’s The Christopher Lowell Show, advertising/copywriting campaigns for various film studios and television networks, including Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, and ABC Television. Along the way, he co-wrote the short The Conversation, shot an underground, no-budget music video for The Beards and did background work for the Coen Brothers on Hail, Caesar!.

In a previous life, he was a features writer for the Austin American-Statesman and the film program director for the Austin Film Festival; a programmer for the Jackson Hole Film Festival, and a screener for the Sonoma International Film Festival. He was also the New York City columnist for Rochester’s Scene Magazine, and a contributor to Zed and Flatiron News. Further still, he once worked under the tutelage of Sheila Nevins at HBO Documentary Programming.

He studied English and Film Studies at the University of Rochester and improv, which he also performed at IO West in Los Angeles.

When he’s not writing feature films, pilots or socially distancing himself because of a global pandemic, he swims, bowls, hikes, and futzes with his facial hair… because the unexamined life is not worth living.