J. D. Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on
House,
ER,
Law & Order,
Hack,
Sherrybaby,
Diary of a City Priest, and
Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s
Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of
AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.
The Atlantic and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vox, among others. He holds an MFA in creative writing from University of Arkansas and is a former U.S. Army paratrooper and a veteran of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
He is also the co-author, under a pseudonym, of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army, a look at the highly classified Joint Special Operations Command.
