Biography

Jason Ammons is an award winning Scenic Designer working in theatre and film, looking for work in a collaborative and creative environment with an emphasis on mutual respect and open dialogue.

He attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for his undergraduate studies, where he received degrees in Art and Cultural Anthropology with emphases in Printmaking, Media Art, and Art History.

Always looking for the next adventure he spent the better part of his 20’s and 30’s in the United States Navy. Though he originally had orders to Virginia, he specifically requested duty overseas (because there’s no point in joining the Navy just to move from Tennessee to Virginia) and was stationed near Tokyo, Japan as part of the Navy’s only permanently forward deployed fleet for the entirety of his enlistment.

During his time in the 7th Fleet, he served aboard the destroyer USS CUSHING, traveling throughout the 7th Fleet Area of Operations and Persian Gulf in support of the Global War on Terrorism and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He has worked in direct support of the Office of Naval Intelligence in the fields of acoustic intelligence and oceanography and has contributed to the Navy’s National Defense Strategy.

After exiting the naval service he once again found himself on the shores of the Tennessee River attending the University of Tennessee, where he pursued a Master of Fine Arts degree in Scenic design with a secondary emphasis in Costume and Projection Design.

As one of only 6 graduate students accepted biennially he was afforded the opportunity to travel to World Stage Design in Cardiff, Wales, where he participated in master classes in scenic painting, large scale inflatables and puppetry.

His design for a puppet theatre production of Anton Chekov’s the Proposal was accepted into the Istanbul International Puppet Festival.

His work has been showcased at the National Design Portfolio Review at the Bohemian Hall in New York, NY and at the US Institute of Theatre Technology’s Young Designer’s Forum.

He is the former head of the Scenic Design Program at East Carolina University, has worked as a Costume Specialist, Scenic Designer and Art Director for over 125 episodes of true crime television through Jupiter Entertainment and served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at the University of Richmond for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.