Jason Hewitt

Jason Shannon Hewitt was born in Muncie, Indiana, on January 23, 1971, the adopted child of James and Barbara Hewitt. He spent his childhood and high school years in Lompoc, California, and was introduced to the theater by his mother who took trips to Los Angeles and New York where Jason was able to able to take in productions of Broadway shows. His first exposure to film and television was showing up as a child extra in the 1978 mini-series "Beggarman Thief" starring Glenn Ford, Jean Simmons, Lynn Redgrave, and Tovah Feldshuh, which was shot in nearby Santa Barbara. Jason began his college education at Ball State University, and then finished at the University of Miami with degrees in Acting and Psychology, during which time Dwayne Johnson was his work-study partner. Following graduation in 1996, he found an apartment in New York, did an internship, and then worked back and forth between New York and Florida doing film, television, and theater work. At the end of 1998, he began a te