Reviews: The Cook (Roberta on the Arts), The Cook (Curtain Up), The Cook (Wolf Entertainment Guide)

As an actor, Jason Madera has worked with off-Broadway companies such as INTAR, Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), Second Stage, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (PRTT), “Not Another Frida Please!” Productions, and many others.

Film credits: “Freddy”, The Fittest (directors: Josh & Jeff Crook)(Crook Bros. Productions & Gil Holland); “Detective Maroni”, Suckerpunch (opposite Greg Nice of hip hop group, Nice ‘n Smooth) (Crook Bros. Productions & Maiden Voyage); “Husband”, Master & Servant [(opposite Corrina Katt Ayala) (directed by Pepper Negron); “Agent Kowper”, This Broken Life (Urban Dekay Productions); “Tony”, Mad Dog (Crook Bros. Productions); “Jason”, The Pin (director: Ricardo Sean Thompson) (Ripple Effects Films).

Television credits: Mr. Madera appeared weekly on Fox Sports Network as well as in syndication for both domestic and international markets in Thunderbox (Cedric Kushner Promotions, Screen Gems/Tupelo Honey); a sports comedy entertainment show, where he played Thunderbox owner “Jimmy Fits”, the eccentric, fidgeting, tattooed, sex god, king pin of the boxing underworld; seen on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (director: Alex Zakrzewski); in the cartoon Bubble Buds, Jason is the voice of “Chubbles Bubble”; other credits include NY Undercover and USA Live (USA Network).

Stage credits: “Carlos”, The Cook (WORLD PREMIERE), (INTAR) by Eduardo Machado & directed by Michael John Garcés; “Murphy”, Indian Wants the Bronx (100 year anniversary NYC, Second Stage); “Larry”, The Date (PRTT) by Franco Ambriz; “Ivan” in the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab production of The Brothers Karamozov; “Aziz” in the HB Playwright Foundation’s production of Where I come From by Daniel Reitz (director: Jules Ochoa); “Angel”, Children of Salt (American premiere); “Vittorio Mussolini”, 1953 by Craig Raine (Verse Theatre of Manhattan); “God”, Celebrities Shouldn’t Have Children by Malu Huacuja del Toro (director: Leonardo Zelig) and others.

Television directorial credits include Thunderbox (Fox Sports Network).

Off-Broadway, Mr. Madera has directed Nancy Nevarez’s Puerto Rico I Will Always Love You (Songs from Coconut Hill Theatre Festival); Roger Schira’s The Puerto Rican Room (Intar), starring Bobby Rivers and Corina Katt Ayala.

As a writer, Mr. Madera directed two of his comedies, The Cook, the Wife and the Sinner and Industrially Yours, off-Broadway as they were produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Institute Lab for Octoberfest ’97 & ‘98. Most recently Jason completed The Reign of Pain by Ouch Davidson, a book of poems targeting the failure of love and optimism through substance and carnal pleasures. His work is complemented with illustrations and the photography of artist, T.M. Kennedy. His most recent work in progress, La Resaca Espanola (The Spanish Hangover), is a book of poems and songs inspired by his journeys through Spain and the beautiful people of his culture.

Musical composition credits for film: Beautiful, sung a capela by Christina Caparoula in the recently released film, Suckerpunch (Blockbuster Video, Urban World Film Festival); The Reign of Pain for The Pin (Dream Shorts film festival).