Jason C. McLean

Hello, welcome to my site.  My name is Jason C. McLean, you can call me Jason or JC. I’m a 32-year-old Montreal-based actor, writer and activist.

I’ve been acting pretty much my whole life, most of the time in theatre. Over the past few years, I’ve played in several guerilla theatre culture jams and street theatre shows with Optative Theatrical Laboratories and other groups. I’ve also appeared in quite a few videos and films and now host my own comedic web-TV talk show JC Sunshine’s Fireside Chat on Forget The Box TV.

I’m also an avid writer. I hold a BA in Journalism from Concordia University and have been a freelance contributor to the Montreal Mirror reporting on the anti-Republican protests in New York in 2004.  I’m currently the editor of and a writer for Forget The Box Magazine, an online publication covering news, culture and the arts in Montreal and abroad. I’ve also recently started writing a weekly theatre column Sunday Theatrics. I also contribute to the OTL Blog and The Talking Stick (as “JC”).

I am an activist both theatrical and in a more general sense. Recently I’ve been helping to stand up to the abundance of corporate advertising on public space with Reclaim The Main and exposing the unethical practises of the Canadian mining industry in the global south and around the world as part of FAO Montreal.

I see this site serving three purposes:

It’s a chance for me to blog about stuff more personal in nature and stuff that isn’t necessarily right for Forget The Box or any of the other places I write.

It’s a chance for people who are interested in what I do to follow me through posts about stuff I’ve done elsewhere and links to my articles and videos.

It’s also a CV site, so if you’ve got something I may be interested in, please let me know. While all of the activism I do and a good chunk of the acting and writing is done on a volunteer basis, I’ve really got to be behind something to do it pro bono.  If you’ve got a paying acting or writing gig, I’m open to that to, as long as it doesn’t conflict with what I’m all about.

I can be reached at jason@jasoncmclean.com

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