Jason Brett

Jason Brett (born 25 May 1953) was the co-producer of the 1986 romantic comedy film About Last Night. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois.

Brett attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater. Moving to Chicago in 1975, he began his career as an actor, appearing in several Chicago theater productions including the Stephen Schwartz musical, Godspell and Michael Weller's Moonchildren, for which he won Jeff Awards for his acting and production of the play. In 1978, Brett co-founded Chicago's famed Apollo Theater, where he produced over forty-five plays and musicals, including such award-winning productionsvague as the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinese; Balm in Gilead, featuring Laurie Metcalfe; And a Nightingale Sang, with Joan Allen; Appearing Nightly, with Lily Tomlin; and David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, with James Belushi. Brett has produced several plays for the New York stage, including Harry Chapin: Lies and Legends, with Amanda McBroom; and Banjo Dancing, with Stephen Wade.

In 1986, Brett co-produced the romantic comedy About Last Night..., for Columbia/TriStar Pictures. The film, directed by Edward Zwick, holds an 82% rating at Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $38.7 million domestically. As a screenwriter, Brett's first original screenplay, The Street Where You Live was a finalist for the Sundance screenwriting program. He went on to write more than a dozen original screenplays, including The Silent Service and Bomb Squad (Columbia/TriStar Pictures); Wildcard (Warner Brothers); Route 66 (Universal Pictures); and The Executive (Trimark Pictures).

From 1989-2000, Brett also wrote and or produced more than three dozen series for all of the major television networks.

In 2000, Brett founded ByteSize Entertainment, a provider of short-form comedy content on the Internet. ByteSize delivered one-minute clips of popular comedy shows, TV promos and film trailers to a subscriber base. The company was acquired in 2001 by Mind Arrow Systems.

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