Jason Lawson - CertHE Course Leader, London

Jason trained at Mountview and LAMDA. He was awarded the MA in World Theatres from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2021 and holds a BA (Hons) English and Drama from University of Leeds.

His directing credits include Kissing Sid James (Jermyn Street, 59e59St NYC), Not a Game for Boys (King’s Head), Christmas Concerts (Chichester Festival Theatre), Charlie and Henry (New End Theatre), Danny’s Wake and Huge (King’s Head, Edinburgh Pleasance), Sleeve Notes, Some White Chick, Unimaginable (Southwark Playhouse, Theatre 503, Union Theatre), Some Afternoons, Red Sky, Blue Sky (Hen & Chickens, Bridge House), Quinto Quarto and The Rose Garden (Union Theatre), Premature Burial (Corsica Arts Studio), Medea (Mountview Bussey Building), Blue Room (RCSSD) and Cabaret (Tring Academy).

His associate director credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Old Vic), Passion Play (Duke of Yorks’ UK tour) and Backbeat (London, Toronto and Los Angeles). His resident director credits include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse). His assistant director credits include Arcadia (Barrymore, NYC), Through a Glass Darkly (Atlantic Theatre, NYC), Being Shakespeare (Harold Pinter Theatre), In A Dark Dark House (Almeida), Triptych (Southwark Playhouse), Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 and 2 (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, UK tour), The Syndicate (Chichester Minerva Theatre, UK tour) and The Pagans (Abingdon Theatre NYC).

He has worked as Senior Foundation Acting Tutor and Director at Mountview, Acting Tutor and Director at London School of Dramatic Art, Visiting Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Resident Director at the Almeida, Acting Tutor for Identity School of Acting, Resident Associate Director of Extempore Theatre Company, Associate Education Director at Southwark Playhouse and Acting Tutor at Arts Ed.