Jacob Chase | Writer/Director
Jacob Chase recently sold his Untitled Supernatural Spec to Paramount with The Picture Company producing and sold his spec Infinite to Sony Pictures with Original Film producing.
Those scripts landed on the 2018 and 2019 Hit List for the best specs of the year. Previously, Chase sold his musical TV show “Harmony” to ABC with Mandeville and ABC Studios producing.
Chase is an alum of the 2017 Sundance Episodic Lab and was listed as one of Hollywood's Top 100 New Writers on the 2017 Young & Hungry List. Additionally, he has written screenplays for Amazon, The Jim Henson Company, Cirque du Soleil and Bazelevs, among others. He won the 2016 Crash the Super Bowl contest with his commercial “Doritos Dogs,” which aired during the Super Bowl and earned him an exclusive directing mentorship under Zack Snyder on the set of Justice League.
Chase directed the feature film The Four-Faced Liar, which premiered at Slamdance and won the HBO Audience Award for Best First Feature at Outfest. He directed staged readings of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane and Terri Minsky’s Amazing Frogs and Toads. Chase has directed commercials and branded content for Sony, Pandora, and Beats by Dre.