About

Jason Vail actor / photographer

Jason Vail began photography at the age of 10. His father put a 35 mm camera into his hands to shoot some snaps at a local street fair in Florida. After the pics were developed his dad sent them to the local newspaper. The paper loved them and used them in that week's edition. Years later Jason became the head Jr. High, High school year book and newspaper photographer. He won state and regional awards in SC before graduating high school. He was then accepted into Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) as a Photography major. He spent 3 years in school in the late 1980's until he caught the acting bug and switched to drama. He finished out his undergrad degree at Coastal Carolina University and then went on to get his M.F.A. in acting at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jason has been a part of the acting business for nearly three decades now working in film, T.V., theater, commercials, industrials, voice overs, web and more. He has acted in films Acrimony, An Actor Prepares opposite Jeremy Irons, Boo, A Madea Halloween, Tammy, opposite Melissa McCarthy, Million Dollar Arm opposite Jon Hamm, Killing Reagan and around 60 other films of all shapes and sizes as well as over 50 plays. He has made TV appearances on shows The Have and Have Nots, Six, Powers, Halt and Catch Fire, The Originals, Drop Dead Diva, Being Mary Jane, Sleepy Hollow, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, Unsolved Mysteries, Your Worst Nightmare and more in his lifetime. He believes fully, that to succeed in the business, you will need the help of others.

Jason is an, "actor for actors," to help give back to the acting community as his teachers and mentors had done for him in his early years. He private coaches actors of all ages for film, television and theater in Atlanta, GA and abroad. His first teaching job was at UNC at the Professional Actor Training Program and PlayMakers Repertory Theater. In 2012 he was invited to be a guest lecturer at Georgia Southern University and was brought in as a teacher adjunct for a semester to teach film/television acting. He currently teaches teens and kids division at Actor Boutique owned by Emmy winning actress Natalia Livingston. He was formally an acting instructor at STUIDO 27 acting school, in Peach Tree City, GA in 2015. He has worked as an assistant casting director for Jessica Fox Casting for the shows Your Worst Nightmare, Swamp Murders, Dead Silent. He has cast numerous independent films while in NYC and here in GA. He's helped actors get placed with top agencies/managers in L.A. and here in Atlanta. He's also shot corporate and business shoots for the Scheduling Institute, St. Baldrick's fundraiser event-Fight Kids Cancer, ACT Tactical Training, IS T - Shirt Printers, Daniel Zimmerman Studio, Verizon, Get Scene (ATL), Hammocks Trading Company, 1920 Tavern, Lipson Dental Group, Mr. Woodstock Realty, Horse Creek Productions, Bombshell Studios and head shots for Spellman College's 2014-15 graduating drama classes here in Atlanta and 2018 Columbus State University, B.F.A. students senior class, Brevard College, NC. Drama Department 2018. His headshots can be found on agency sites in CA, NY, OHIO, VA, FL, LA, AL, SC, TX, TN, NC and nearly every agency here in GA. His work is recommended not just here in ATL but also by managers and agents in L.A, and NYC. Jason is always willing to offer advice about the business when asked - free of charge!