BIOGRAPHY
JASE PARKER, born October 7, 1983, is a professional actor, singer [Tenor/High Baritone], and dancer who has performed with companies all over DC, Maryland, and Virginia; in musicals, dramas, operas, cabarets, concerts, and staged readings. Music was always a part of his life since elementary school (singing in choirs, performing solos and such), but the acting and dancing bug finally hit during the summer of 2000 when he was cast in his first musical, a community theatre production of Hello, Dolly! Since then, he's made it his mission to study and perfect his craft in the business of the performing arts. He is a magna cum laude graduate of The Catholic University of America where he received a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre. His work includes productions with the Washington Savoyards: The Mikado (Ko-Ko), Trial by Jury (The Learned Judge), The Pirates of Penzance (Samuel), Babes in Toyland (Roderigo), and he received a DC Theatre Scene Audience Choice Award nomination [Favorite Actor - Musical] for his performance as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe. He also received a WATCH Award nomination [Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical] for portraying Angel Dumott Schunard in RENT with Kensington Arts Theatre. Jase has twice participated in the Capital Fringe Festival where he helped to premiere two new works: The Poet Warriors (Eddie) and Count Dracula’s Café (Server). Other credits have included sti nts with Washington Shakespeare Company: Night & Day (Francis); Keegan Theatre: Man of La Mancha (Anselmo); understudying at Imagination Stage in Disney’s Mulan and the Kennedy Center in Such Sweet Thunder. He made his New York acting debut during the summer of 2011 participating in FringeNYC (The New York International Fringe Festival) where he performed the role of Gay Kid in gleeam with Landless Theatre Company. He dreams of making New York City his permanent home and seeing his name in the lights of Broadway someday. In the operatic genre, he’s performed in The Old Maid and the Thief (Bob), and Cendrillon (Master of Ceremonies); with the In Series: Casino Paradise (Stanley) and María la O (Juan/Dancer). He enjoys being a singer who can jump from classical to contemporary. Staged readings he's performed in: Hard Luck Café (can also be heard on demo recording), Class Clowns, Better than Sex, Of Dice and Men (excerpt); The Kennedy Center's 10th Annual Page-to-Stage Festival: excerpts of Attack of the Killer Bugs: The Musical and Lord of the Gays. On the cabaret stage, he's performed in Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s CHAWberet Ate (8): Off the Menu and Arlen Blues & Berlin Ballads with the In Series. Tim Treanor of DC Theatre Scene writes: “There seems to be nothing he can’t do.” At the moment, he is non-union affiliated.duction of Hello, Dolly! Since then, he's made it his mission to study and perfect his craft in the business of the performing arts. He is a magna cum laude graduate of The Catholic University of America where he received a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre