A Little About Jack

                     Jack is one of America's busiest actors. Currently his career is burgeoning as STAND BY to SENIOR STARS. Now covering Ed Asner in Grace at the Cort Theater on Broadway and in 2011and 2012 he covered Stacy Keach in Other Desert Cities at Lincoln Center and on Broadway.  In 2010, he played Roy in Chris Hanna’s The New Pink at the Virginia Stage Company was in I Know and Wild Terrain at The Ensemble Studio Theatre and became a member of EST. Also was in Destination Alaska at the H.B. Studio Theatre.  He filmed Morning Glory and Footloose 2. In 2008, he played Tobias in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance for which he was nominated for an Elliot Norton award for outstanding actor and received the IRNE Award[Independent Reviewers of New England] as best actor in a play.   He then played Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman at the Chautauqua Theater Company and Watson Frye in Close Ties at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City.

In 2007,he played Shelly Levine in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Dallas Theater Center. Earlier that year, he played Rev. Winemiller in Summer and Smoke at the Papermill Playhouse.

Recent Broadway plays include Glengarry Glen Ross, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Judgement at Nuremberg.

His work at Lincoln Center include Edward Albee’s Seascape, Morning’s at Seven, Ah WildernessThe Little Foxes and  A Fair Country.

A twenty year member of Circle Repertory Company, Jack appeared in 20 major productions such as, 3 Hotels, Hamlet, Love’s Labor Lost, The Diviners, Battle of Angels and Hot L Baltimore.

He was in the National Tour of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Take Me Out and has appeared in over twenty regional theaters in such plays as Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, the Tempest, Oedipus The King, Picnic, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet.

Film credits include Gardening Tips For Housewives, The Autumn Heart,  The Secret of My Success, Trading Places,  Reuben Reuben, and Baby It’s You.

Television credits include Law & Order, Law & Order:Criminal Intent, The Wright Verdict, Law and Order, The Equalizer, Spenser for Hire, Cagney and Lacey, and all the New York based Soap Operas.

He is a regular reader of short stories for Symphony Space/National Public Radio "Selected Shorts" program.

Jack is father of Adam Davidson, NPR’s award winning Host and Co-Founder of Planet Money and weekly Columnist for the New York Times Sunday Magazine and  Paramount Picture’s Vice President of Aquisition and Production Eben Davidson.

A former Marine, Jack is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Fine Arts.