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Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
George Murchison in A Raisin in the Sun
Jaysen is a Washington, DC native. In three seasons at OSF: Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods; Mr. Frank Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Macduff in Macbeth, Will in Born with Teeth, Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Athos in The Three Musketeers. Selected regional: Gio in Downstate, Eric in Wig Out!, AJ in Choir Boy (Studio Theatre); The Ballad of Emmett Till, That Summer in Sumner, and Medgar Evers in Benevolence (Mosaic Theatre Company); Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (5th Avenue Theatre); Choir Boy (Marin Theatre Company); Jay Jackson in The Royale (Olney Theatre and 1st Stage co-productions); Smart People and Jubilee (Arena Stage); Darren in Take Me Out (1st Stage); Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (Everyman Theatre); Actually and Sons of the Prophet (Theatre J); Macbeth (Folger Theatre); The Wiz and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); Acoustic Rooster (The Kennedy Center resident production and National Tour); Measure for Measure, Coriolanus and Wallenstein (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Teaching: The George Washington University. Education: MFA, Indiana University; BA, Grinnell College. Instagram: @thejayceface; www.jaysenwright.com His love and thanks go to his husband, Christopher, and their dog, Snowstorm.