Jason Dirden plays George Murchison.
Tell us about your character.
He is the guy from the other side of the tracks. He comes from a very affluent African American family and has different views on the world because of his cultural background and how he was in raised and his environment. He comes over to the Younger household to court Beneatha them and it doesn’t go as well as he hoped.
Your scenes must be fun!
Oh, they are extremely fun. It is always fun to play a character that everyone looks at and goes “Hmm what is he talking about?” but it is fun to because those characters have as much validity and logic as every other character in the show. The beautiful thing about this play is that everybody has a logical and valid point of view. Nobody is apologetic for believing or thinking what they believe in. It’s extremely fun.
Where did your passion for theater come from?
My father is an actor and was an actor as we were growing up and I have an older brother, who is two years older than me, who is actually in ‘All The Way’ starring Bryan Cranston named Dirden. He is playing Martin Luther King in that show. So it started 13, 14 years of age, when I got the bug.
