Jason Peck, is an award-winning English humorist, actor and comedian based in Chicago, IL. As a comedian, he performed stand-up on the London comedy circuit, worked as an improviser, wrote and performed material for Newsrevue and contributed material to The Treason Show.
Jason Peck
Author's posts
Jun 02
Story vs. Plot
I’ve been thinking about the difference between story and plot when it comes to screenwriting. And, if I’m honest, I sometimes use those words interchangeably. I tink this comes from learning about script structure so I often end up conflating the two. But they are different. And I don’t just mean in the spelling. If …
Jun 01
The Children’s Entertainer
Between 2004 and 2005, I worked as a children’s entertainer. A friend of a friend was working for a company, mostly performing magic for kids. I got recommended to try out for the company. I auditioned, got in, and was invited to do an all-day training session. Halfway through, they announced that one of their …
Jun 01
Please Stop Trying To Kill Me, Dad: Origin
In September 2001, I watched a one-woman show by London-based performer/theatremaker Peta Lily. The stand-up theatre show, Topless, was about ‘life and death and love and hate and sex and sticking plaster and breasts.’ It was fantastic, very funny. I thought to myself, “this! This is the sort of work I want to be doing. …
Jun 01
The Group Hug Theatre Company
In 1994, I had some friends who were really interested in theatre. My friends, whom shall be known as Big S and Little G, had already worked together writing sketch comedy. I was interested in doing that too, so I had written some sketches but didn’t really have anyone to do them with. I had …
Jun 01
The Return…
This post marks my return to blogging… again. This blog seems to have been about me leaving and then coming back. Made a couple of cosmetic changes here and there over the years. I stopped posting because a) life, and b) I didn’t know what I wanted to do with this blog as it no …
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