Actor / Director Profile

Jason Dottley is the President of Del Shores Productions. Currently they have partnered with Funny Boy Films to produce the film adaptation of Shores' GLAAD award-winner "Southern Baptist Sissies". Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan are top-lining with filming beginning in April 2007.During the fall of 2006 Dottley produced a six-city national tour for two plays he'd been producing locally in LA, "Southern Baptist Sissies" and "Sordid Lives". From San Deigo to Ft. Lauderdale, he played to over 15,000 fans on the road in venues packed over to the 1,250-mark.Dottley kicked off 2006 with the revivals of both road shows at the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood. In the middle of the run, Dottley added a revival of Shores' most critically-acclaimed play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife" into the mix. The prestigious L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards honored Dottley with a "Best Production" nomination.In 2005 Dottley joined forces with five-time Emmy and 2-time Golden Globe winning producer Alice West ("Ugly Betty", "Picket Fences", "LA Law", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal"), producer Victoria Alonso ("Sordid Lives", "Big Fish", "Kingdom of Heaven"), and Shores to create Far From Right Productions.In the fall of 2003, Jason enjoyed a six-week run at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood in Terrance McNally's "Lisbon Traviata". His performance was tagged "Intelligent. Courageous. Uninhibited," by the LA Times. "First-rate," by LA Weekly. And "Letter-perfect and intelligent" by Backstage West.