Jason/Improvisation

JASON SPERLING works as an actor, singer, teacher, and director around Chicago, and has been teaching and directing with CAST since 2005. He is an original company member of Barrel of Monkeys, a children’s writing and theater program, and has worked with them for over seventeen years. Jason teaches acting at The Chicago High School for the Arts; he created and taught the drama program at St. Juliana School for seven years, and directed there as well; and he frequently directs, teaches, and music directs with Elmhurst Children’s Theatre. Additionally, he has been a teaching artist with Raven Theatre, and directed the student-authored sketch comedy show at Chicago Improv Festival’s Summer Theatre Camp in 2009. As a performer, theatres he has worked with locally include Illinois Theatre Center, Drury Lane Water Tower, Ravinia, Theatre at the Center, Noble Fool, Apple Tree Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Northlight, Marriott Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Pegasus Players, Light Opera Works and Porchlight; and Red Barn (WI), Old Creamery (IA), and Enchanted Hills (IN) regionally.