Jason Bennett is 2010 Runner-Up for Best Acting Coach in New York City. He works with professional performers on Broadway, in film and television, and in theaters throughout the country. In addition, he has coached politicians, attorneys, national news anchors, corporate executives, and activists.
Jason Bennett studied acting, voice, singing and movement with almost 30 teachers, including the techniques of Adler, Barrish, Berry, Boal, Boleslavski, Chekhov, Chubbuck, Cohen, Hagen, Hart, Linklater, Mamet, Meisner, Morris, Moss, Rodenburg, Shurtleff, Spolin, Stanislavski, Strasberg, Hornby and others. He has created his own one-person shows, and performed in such diverse roles as Malvolio in Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night," Tony in "West Side Story," and Valére in "Tartuffe."
He has mastered all the traditional acting systems, his contemporary work described by various professional performers, teachers and publications as "inspired," "genius," "cutting-edge," "simultaneously very deep and practical." His work is rooted in a commitment to continue to evolve actor training to make it increasingly practical, fun and profound.
Jason Bennett studied extensively with Master acting teacher Eric Morris (Author of Irreverent Acting; No Acting, Please, and more) in Los Angeles, who was the first to substantially develop Archetype Work as a tool for actors. He studied Musical Theater at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, consistently ranked in the top three-five Musical Theater programs in the United States. He then received a BFA in Acting from Florida State University, having been invited into the program without an audition. At FSU, he also received a minor in Psychology and Dance. He has twice completed the Advanced International Voice Workshop at The Banff Centre with Internationally renowned Master Voice Teacher Richard Armstrong of the Roy Hart Lineage, participating with professors of acting and voice from around the world. He continues studying voice and performance with Master Teachers Barbara Feller, Richard Armstrong and Jonathan Hart.
Jason Bennett has studied Archetype Work, Dream Work and The Psychology of Selves for over 16 years. Mr. Bennett has adapted this body of work for acting, adding it to the traditional reportoire of actor training he teaches. He has completed six times the advanced professional training offered by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone at VDI in California. Jason Bennett studied psychology for actors with Dr. Judith Tamar Stone in Los Angeles. He worked with Dr. Dassie Hoffman in New York, Yolanda Vlesmas-Koumidou, Catherine Keir and apprenticed with Dr. Martha-Lou Cohen.
Jason Bennett has studied voice, singing, evolutionary psychology, archetypal psychology, family systems theory, personality psychology, psychosynthesis, Spiral Dynamics, social psychology, hypnosis, yoga, nutrition, exercise physiology and various systems of creative research for about 20 years. Jason Bennett studied military survival and combat training with former Russian Special Forces member Sergei Maslikhov.
Jason Bennett still performs occasionally and is working on a book about acting. He is especially having fun with his home recording studio.
Jason Bennett is from Tampa, Florida. He now lives in the East Village in New York City, and regularly travels to Los Angeles, Canada, Europe and elsewhere, teaching and furthering his training.
Jason Bennett comes from a long line of teachers in his family. His grandmother said, even when he was a child, that he was "born a teacher." His family received this message from many sources as Jason grew up -- sometimes not in the most positive terms, as one may imagine. Young children trying to teach their teachers sometimes doesn't go so well.