- His heroes are his mother, his grandfather, Gordon, and his late best friend, Peter McMahan.
- Credits the film The Goonies as the movie that made him consider acting as a kid.
- Attended Montgomery Blair High school, in Silver Spring, Maryland--the same school as actress Goldie Hawn, actor Ben Stein, comedian Lewis Black and newswoman, Connie Chung.
- Was a supernumerary dancer in American Ballet Theater's Giselle.
- Is a die-hard New York Knicks fan.
- Had his own lifestyle column in the George Mason University paper, The Broadside, while attending the school.
- Trained with famed jazz choreographer, Eugene Luis "Luigi" Facciuto, who also taught Madonna, Liza Minelli and John Travolta.
- Attended the (formerly known as) University of Maryland College of Art & Design for still-life drawing classes at age 11.
- Trained in classical piano, Jazz piano and music theory at the age of 12 and performed classical piano recitals at the world renown John F. Kennedy Center by age 13.
- Credits much of his comedic inspirations from Eddie Murphy, John Leguizamo, Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho.
Credits his literary and screenwriting inspirations from Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, Neil Simon, Bret Easton Ellis, Philip Roth, Jenji Kohan, David Mamet & Lena Waithe.
Credits his career inspirations from Quentin Tarantino, Steve Jobs and Lucille Ball. - Was in a jazz band (Alto saxophone) from middle to mid-high school.
- Jase took graduate level screenwriting and history courses at George Mason University as an underclassmen, receiving an A in each.
- Of West African (mainly Nigerian), English and Scandanavian decent.
- Considers Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, John Woo, and Wong Kar Wei as the directors who inspire him the most.
- Djs under the moniker "isathai" which is the literal, Greek origin of his birth name, Jason. It means "healer".
- Jase was taught how to DJ in college. He was mentored by a student of legendary DJ Kool Herc and quickly began making money spinning in everything from bars and lounges to exclusive weddings in Maryland, DC and Virginia.
- Favorite books are "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis, "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan, "The Fab Five" by Mitch Album, "Matilda" by Roald Dahl and "Crime and Punishment", by Fedor Dostoyevsky.
- Favorite comics growing up were "Astrix" by Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny; "The Adventures of Tintin" by Herge, and the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" graphic novels by Eastman and Laird. He's a huge fan of graphic novels to this day and draws a lot of inspiration from them in his writing.
- Had two weekly Dj residencies while in college.
- Huge fan of fashion - collects Avante Garde, rock and grunge inspired pieces. Fan of Hedi Slimane and Olivier Rousteing. Favorite designer is Ann Demeulemeester.
- Speaks basic conversational German.
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