JASON COLLINS VOICE
Seattle - New York - Las Vegas - Los Angeles


THE FULL STORY
Jason Collins grew up in Seattle and began performing at a very young age. Over the course of his twenty-three year career there, Collins has been seen on Northwest Stages including The Seattle Opera, Tacoma Actor’s Guild, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, The Seattle Repertory Theatre and The Alpine Theatre Project. Favorite roles include Seymour in Little Shop Of Horrors, (Village Theatre) and Finn in Into The West, (Seattle Children’s Theatre). Another career highlight was originating the role of Dan opposite Amy Spanger in Next To Normal by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, a show which went on to win 3 Tony Awards in 2009 and a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Collins has had the good fortune and distinct pleasure to be involved with two collaborations with Speeltheater, Holland at the Seattle Children’s Theatre; the 2003 US Premier of Nicky Somewhere Else and later in 2005, the US Premier of Glittra’s Mission. During his early career in Seattle, Collins received three prestigious Footlight Awards for outstanding performance from the Seattle Press for his work as Huck Finn in Big River and Valentine LaMar in Babes In Arms, both for Village Theatre, and Finn in Into The West (for Seattle Children’s Theatre). He was a Resident Voice Talent for Muzak Audio Marketing 1999/2000 where he recorded hundreds of commercial advertisement and telephony spots for hundreds of companies. From 2003 to 2007, Collins was a Resident Voice Talent with Cedarhouse Audio where he recorded numerous Audio Books for BBC AudioBooks America and Blackstone Audio, and received an Earphones Award from Audio File Magazine for his reading of the book Falls The Shadow, by William Lashner. In 2003, Collins toured to Taiwan and Singapore as Sean in the World Premier of The Wedding Banquet, by Brian Yorkey and Woody Pak. In 2006, Collins starred as Albert Peterson in Village Theatre’s production of Bye, Bye Birdie, which received a Footlight Award for Best Musical. In 2007, Collins returned to Seattle after the 30th Anniversary Broadway National Tour of Annie, in order to originate the role of Kurt in Signs Of Life, for Village Originals. A few years later, in early 2010, Collins reprised the roll of Kurt in the Off-Broadway run of Signs Of Life at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre and was praised by The New York Times as being “…the most compelling actor on the stage…” and then again, in 2013, was asked to reprise the role once more in the Chicago production at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre. In New York, Collins has originated leading roles in both the World Premier of The Book Of James, by Scott Warrender, and reprised his role in the 2004 NY Concert Premier of The Wedding Banquet, at The Signature Theatre, appearing opposite Anthony Rapp, with Musical Direction by Jason Robert Brown, as well as appearing as The Sewing Machine Man in Prospect Theater Company’s highly acclaimed 2008 production of The Blue Flower. In early 2009, Collins returned again to Seattle’s Village Theatre to play Algernon in The Importance Of Being Earnest, a production that received yet another Footlight Award. Collins can also be heard on the original cast recordings of the 30th Anniversary release of Annie and David Austin’s A Christmas Carol, as Bob Cratchett. Film audiences may have seen him in the hilariously irreverent feature film Gory, Gory Hallelujah, as Ralph Peed. In 2015, Collins returned again to Seattle’s Village Theatre to portray The Emcee in Cabaret, under the direction of Brian Yorkey, a performance that received a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Later that year, he originated the role of Tyler Nelson in the Off-Broadway Premier of Who’s Your Baghdaddy?, which was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and returned to Off-Broadway in 2017 for a second successful and highly acclaimed run. While in New York, Collins has voiced the character of Lucius Perry in The Privilege of the Sword, by Ellen Kushner for audible.com and numerous characters for ESL Children’s sing-along books.