Jason Hale is a 1993 graduate of the New Actors Workshop in New York City, where he studied acting with George Morrison, Mike Nichols, and Paul Sills.
[citation needed] [10] In 2006, Sills recommended and endorsed Jason as "uniquely equipped to impart the improvisational work of Viola Spolin" as a teacher and director.
[13][14][15][16] Jason is currently Assistant Professor and Chair of the Theatre Department at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
In 2013, Hale accepted the position to teach acting and direct as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University-Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Ankara, Turkey.
Hale also founded and oversees a Theatre for Kids program which teaches nearly two hundred students ages 8–10 and 11-13 each year on the weekends at Bilkent University.