Biography

Co-founded Actability, an acting school on Broadway in New York City in the year 2000.

Like Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Francis Ford Coppola, Jack got his break from "The King of the B's", legendary producer Roger Corman. Jack landed his first film role as the mutant "Gargoyle" in Roger Corman's The Terror Within (1989) (where he was billed under the pseudonym "Roren Sumner").

Studied "The Method" style of acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and "The Meisner Technique" at Playhouse West under the direction of Jeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie.

Studied acting with Bruce Glover , father of actor Crispin Glover.

Studied Aikido at the dojos of both Steven Seagal and Toshishiro Obata. He also studied Hapkido with Grandmaster Kwang Sik Myung.

If you're middle-aged, and still playing "Cowboys and Indians", don't be surprised when you find out that some playmates use real bullets.

Lead, follow, or get out of your own way.

Being touched by believable human behavior in a film is the real "special effect".

We all miss the mark. Maybe the point is simply to have a mark to miss. And perhaps to get back up and dust yourself off more times than you're knocked down on your ass. Who knows? Maybe 51% good means you won.

Sure, ridding oneself of guilt, maladaptive beliefs and self-defeating behavior often means going against the flow of family dynamics, cultural background, groupthink, the conformity of "cool", and even the very fabric of society itself; but, hey, sometimes, ya' gotta transcend your tribe to get where ya' gotta grow. Nothing personal. Well, actually, it is.