Jason Rice

Vice President of Production - Founder

Jason Rice has been involved in theatre for over fifteen years. He has served on the boards of N.M. Productions, StageRight TheatreCompany, and Bucket Productions, of which he was also a co-founder. Jason currently serves as Rover's Vice President in charge of production. Jason also served as a member of the Artists' Advisory Council of S.T.A.G.E. for a year. He has worked with many regional theatres in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, including Deep Ellum Opera Theatre, Bucket Productions, Plano Repertory Theatre, and Audacity Productions. Some of the plays Jason has directed include The Runner Stumbles, The War of the Worlds, The Baltimore Waltz, Bags, Wrens, Krapp's Last Tape, Waiting for Godot, and The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It. He has performed in such plays as Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Twelfth Night, and The Three Musketeers. He has designed sound for Mary's Wedding, Private Eyes, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Night Must Fall, The Glass Menagerie, and Light Up the Sky. Jason has received awards for acting and sound design, and he has written several custom murder mysteries and has had productions of his one-act short plays, Every Now and Then at Fourth and Main and The Pitch, among others. He has composed music for both live theatre and video, receiving the Aegis Award for his original composition for Matt Kaufman's film short Willoughby. Jason received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (with a Physics minor) from Texas Tech University, where he did graduate work in music composition. He has worked as a software engineer, specializing in real-time graphics and simulation for commercial and military applications, and he has worked on several games for the Nintendo 64™, including Aerofighters Assault (for which he also served as casting director and audio editor for the voices) and F1 Grand Prix. He was recently the director of engineering for a small, independent games developer working on a first party contract for the Microsoft Xbox™. He holds two patents in the area of real-time and interactive graphics, receiving the nationwide Hughes Electronics Patent Award for one of these patents. Together with Carol, Jason has two theater fanatic sons that are 4 and 6.