Jason Cannon is a best-selling author and publisher, as well as an award-winning actor, director, improviser, playwright, and teacher. He has an MFA in Directing, a Master's in Drama, and a quarter-century in the professional theatre. As an actor, Jason has portrayed everything from a rapping dinosaur to a robot and from a hitman to Hamlet. He has written plays about Stevie Wonder and J. R. R. Tolkien, directed plays about hiccuping dragons and foul-mouthed puppets, and once while improvising he was attacked by a stage light. He lives in Florida just a holler from the Gulf with his partner Rebecca and their two silly pups, Gaia and Odin.

He makes a killer key lime pie and runs lots of 10Ks and half-marathons.Jason believes storytelling in all its forms-whether seen on the stage or read on the page-has the power not only to entertain but also to comfort, provoke, and inspire us to be better humans.