Jason C. McLean explained

Jason C. McLean
Birth Date:9 May 1977
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jason C. McLean is a Montreal-based writer, journalist, actor, theatre activist and a co-founder of the Forget the Box Media Collective where he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the group's principal site ForgetTheBox.net.

Born in Montreal in 1977, McLean has performed on stage, on film, on Web-TV and in numerous culture jams.

In 2003, he joined Optative Theatrical Laboratories and has since performed with this dramatic collective in the long-running theatre experiment Car Stories, the anti-racist deconstruction Sinking Neptune and various guerrilla theatre performances targeting Starbucks, American Apparel and other companies.

In 2004, McLean co-founded the infringement Festival with fellow Optative members Donovan King and Gary St-Laurent. The festival is currently in five cities. McLean is an organizer of the international circuit and the annual Montreal event.

In 2009, he co-founded the Forget The Box Media Collective. He currently serves as Editor-In-Chief and contributes to the site regularly and hosts the site's bi-weekly podcast. He was also the in-character host of JC Sunshine's Fireside Chat, a comedic web-TV talk show with fictional narrative elements produced by Forget The Box Studios.

McLean holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Concordia University, was the original editor of the now-defunct Indie Theatre Times and Review and has been published in the Montreal Mirror.

McLean is a former member of the Quebec Drama Federation board of directors.

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Theatre (limited)

Film and Video (limited)

Journalism

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