Gender	Male
Location	Austin, TX, United States
Introduction	Jack is a 2013 graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was a Dean's Scholar and film major. He is currently in pre-production on his first feature film. Jack’s previous seven short films have screened at film festivals nationwide over the last several years. He is the recipient of numerous awards from Tisch during both his enrollment and post-graduation, including the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship, the Sony Electronics Scholarship and the Emerson Scholarship. He currently works as an editor at Comedy Central for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Previously, he was an associate producer and assistant editor for Emmy-winning filmmaker Nancy Buirski, and interned for a year-and-a-half at Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions. He studied acting at Manhattan’s Herbert Berghof Studio under the direction of Austin Pendleton. During his four years at Austin High School, Jack performed in twenty-three plays and won fourteen Best Actor or All-Star Cast awards at all levels of UIL competition, and advanced to Nationals competition in Monologue, Duet Musical and Shakespeare performance. He has written a monthly film column for Austin Family Magazine since 2004.
Favorite movies	Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Departed, Mystic River, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Mean Streets, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Gangs of New York, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, JFK, The Aviator, Lost in Translation, Do the Right Thing, Platoon, Heat, Minority Report, Midnight Cowboy, American Beauty, Casino, Brokeback Mountain, Munich, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Schindler's List, Born on the Fourth of July, Nashville, Die Hard, Dog Day Afternoon, Million Dollar Baby, Network, Milk, Star Wars, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Unforgiven, Magnolia, 21 Grams, L.A. Confidential, About Schmidt, Adaptation, Scarface, The Age of Innocence, Being John Malkovich, Citizen Kane, Almost Famous, Wonder Boys, American Splendor, Dead Man Walking, Capote, Bringing Out the Dead, Zodiac, Slumdog Millionaire, Revolutionary Road, The Dark Knight, Annie Hall, Children of Men, Black Hawk Down, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Insider, The King of Comedy, Memento, Mississippi Burning, The Player, Short Cuts, The Royal Tenenbaums, Synecdoche New York, City of God, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, Lawrence of Arabia, Mulholland Drive, Serpico, Collateral, Shattered Glass, Into the Wild, Michael Clayton, I'm Not There, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, The Last Temptation of Christ, Good Will Hunting, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, On the Waterfront, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, North By Northwest, Public Enemies, The Hurt Locker, Badlands, The Last Waltz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Conformist
Favorite music	The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Queen, Billy Joel, The Who, Van Morrison, Simon & Garfunkel, Elton John, The Beatles, The Kinks, Eddie Vedder, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac, Aimee Mann, David Bowie
Favorite books	East of Eden, Scorsese by Ebert, The Great Gatsby, A View From the Bridge, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Catcher in the Rye, The Pillowman, Into the Wild, Death of a Salesman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Things They Carried