Arts on the Hill: An Evening with Jason George

ARTS ON THE HILL: An Evening with Jason George  

Friday, November 4th • 5-6pm (doors open at 4:30pm) • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery

UVA Faculty, Staff, & Students: All UVA faculty, staff, and students are eligible to enter the lottery (one submission per person) with an option to bring a guest. 

Lottery: The deadline to enter the lottery is 11:59 pm on Monday, October 31st. Winners will be notified no later than 3:00 pm on Tuesday, November 1st.

Questions or Concerns: Email Emma Terry, Programs & Communication Director for UVA Arts, or Stacy Smith, Director, Carr's Hill Events.

Jason George is an actor with over 50 guest star and 10 series regular television roles to his credit in primetime television, including his lead role in the highly anticipated “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff “Station 19”. After a college friend coaxed him into taking an acting class, George beat out 14,000 hopefuls in a nationwide search and landed his first major acting job on Aaron Spelling’s “Sunset Beach” for which he would be later Emmy-nominated. Seen for the last eight seasons of “Grey’s Anatomy” as Dr. Miranda Bailey’s husband, Dr. Ben Warren, Jason was also a regular on “Mistresses” with Alyssa Milano. George is also known for his work on “Eve” and “Eli Stone” with Victor Garber and Jonny Lee Miller or films such as PLAYING THE FIELD with Gerard Butler. His newest role as a training firefighter in the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff, "Station 19" sees Ben Warren once again bettering himself through another career change. A classically trained theater actor, George recently starred in 12 ANGRY MEN at the Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theatre of California. The play, with its half-white, half-black cast, won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Production and Jason had the honor of playing Juror #8, the role made famous by Henry Fonda and Jack Lemon in film versions. George played the lead in U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove’s epic drama, THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH.

After receiving a BA from the University of Virginia, Jason went on to get his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Temple University and served on the Board for Temple’s School of Communications and Theater. George serves as a Board Member of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. He is currently the chair of the national union’s Diversity Advisory Committee, has been Chair or Co-Chair of the legacy unions’ National or Hollywood EEO Committees and has been part of the unions’ negotiating teams for the last several prime-time television and film contracts where he has been instrumental in helping protect performers and championing diversity. Jason is extremely pleased to put all of this experience to work in COLLABORATIONS WORKSHOP, a weekly workspace he hosts for actors to further their craft and their career.

Arts on the Hill is a recurring event on Carr's Hill featuring artists and scholars from our faculty and student body, as well as visiting artists and scholars from around the globe. President Jim Ryan host guests each month during the academic year for performances and discussions around the Arts at UVA!! Arts on the Hill is an ongoing collaboration between the Office of the President & the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.