Jason Szalla

Jason Szalla (born 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an artist based in New York. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 2003.
A trained painter, Szalla is best known for his plays. As a writer and director, his work integrates an intimate knowledge of both the theater and contemporary art.
Szalla has exhibited at Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany, Art House Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland, The Beehive, Pittsburgh, PA, Charles University Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic, and Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY among many other group exhibitions.
His plays have been featured at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York.
He has been a property designer for SITI company.
Copy 8852: Co-written by Jason Szalla and John Kearns, directed by Jason Szalla premiered at the Experimental Text Festival May 10-13, 2007
Copy 8852 was Jason D. Szalla's directorial debut presenting a new work in progress. Based on and inspired by his on-going work, Ideas and Observations , a series of lists, which has been featured in the Daily Constitutional. In this project, Szalla explores the meaning of existence and how and why he's necessary as an individual artist in the 21st century.
Portrait of J.B.: Written and directed by Jason Szalla premiered at the Tiny Theatre Festival, May 22-24, 2008.
"How do we face the brutality of fact, the agitated feverishness which is life? Portrait of J.B. puts forth a painting like a drug, the possibility of a state when everything is happening very quickly as life slows down, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure."

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