Michael Jason Allen

Michael Jason Allen landed his first professional acting gig as a day player in the Columbia Pictures movie What Planet Are You From starring John Goodman Annette Bening Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley 1999 Going on to star in national television commercials for Cox Comm Yosh Fragrances HGTV and the California Board of Tourism among others hes continued in films television commercials and various television shows on FOX and the W Network In 2008 he began writing directing producing and starring in his own feature films His feature films References 2008 The Coldest Kiss 2014 Stealing Sunrise 2015 An Idle Mind Is the Devils Playground 2016 Stealing Sunrise 2 Malibu Trail 2017 Hello Are You There 2018 EMULATOR 2019 have received positive reviews from renowned indie and major film critics as well as prominent media outlets including USA Today The Wall Street Journal Arizona Republic and featured news stories on FOX CBS tv affiliates Since his debut film he has subsequently gone on to write direct produce and star in 8 award winning or nominated independent feature films while performing the cinematography in 5 of them He is the lead vocalist songwriter and instrumentalist for his electrorock band Official Version and has performed live around the US sharing the bill with popular music artists of the 80s 90s He also has a 1980s era alter ego named Adrian Star in which he has released several pop albums with many music videos