Jason K. Allen is a screenwriter, filmmaker and actor from Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a journalist, nature photographer, and serves as a park interpretive specialist and arboretum coordinator for Tennessee State Parks.
moreJason K. Allen is a screenwriter, filmmaker and actor from Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a journalist, nature photographer, and serves as a park interpretive specialist and arboretum coordinator for Tennessee State Parks.
Several of Allen's screenplays have been sold, optioned and produced. His 2004 comedy script "Lucky Teeter" won the Tennessee Screenwriting Association's national screenplay competition; it was later produced as "Lucky Fritz", directed by Stephen Manuel and starring Julia Dietze ("Iron Sky") and Corey Feldman. His comedy script "The Happy Valley Mafia" placed second in the 2010 TSA national screenplay competition. In 2011, he wrote the award-winning PSA "Plant A Tree In Tennessee" for Tennessee State Parks; it was produced by Gemini Productions.
In 2012, Allen wrote several short screenplays. Two of them, "Autumn Lovers" and "The Wildcat From Outer Space", were filmed in Nashville and are in post-production. Two others - the comedy "American Sock" and the horror "What the Zombies Saw" - were finalists in ScriptVamp's 2012 Short Screenplay Competition. "American Sock" was later purchased by Tallgrass Pictures and is in post-production. Another of Allen's short scripts, "The Zombie Who Liked Fred Astaire", was optioned by Manic Phoenix Productions and is slated to shoot in the U.K. in early 2013, while his horror/suspense screenplay "The Horse-Drawn Hearse" was optioned by New York-based filmmaker Drew Bremer and scheduled to shoot in the spring of 2013.
Allen's first work as an actor was on the 2011 FX original movie "Outlaw Country", starring John Hawkes, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Rooker and Haley Bennett. In September of 2011, he worked as a stand-in/double on Fox Searchlight's "Stoker", starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook. And in October of 2011, Allen appeared in the film "Lukewarm" with John Schneider and Bill Cobbs.
In 2012, Allen appeared in the films "Changing Seasons", "Living In Sin", "Cyclical Effect" and "A Matter of Time". He also joined the cast of the ABC-TV series "Nashville", which stars Connie Britton, Powers Boothe and Hayden Panettiere. Allen appeared in five of the first eight episodes of "Nashville".
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