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Jason Dottley is currently starring as "Ty Williamson" in Del Shores' "Sordid Lives: The Series". Dottley stars with icons Olivia Newton-John and Rue McClanahan, as well as with Bonnie Bedelia, Beth Grant, Caroline Rhea, Leslie Jordan, Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander, Ann Walker, Sharron Alexis, Ted Detwiler, T. Ashanit Mozelle, Emerson Collins, Criag Taggart, and Katherine Bailess. Guest stars include gay icon Margaret Cho, Carson Kresley, and "Dirty Sexy Money"'s Candis Cayne. The show currently airs on LOGO in America We have already been sold to foreign markets, as well, thanks to IMG World Media. In Canada, "Sordid Lives: The Series" is on the SuperChannel.

Enjoy a complete set of Sordid Lives: The Series trailers and video promos on Del Shores' Youtube Channel "Sordid Lives Channel" http://www.Youtube.com/SordidLivesChannel

As a producer, Dottley is currently working on the film adaptation of Shores' GLAAD award-winner "Southern Baptist Sissies". Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan are top-lining with filming planned for 2009.

During the fall of 2006 Dottley produced the six-city national tour (Del Shores' The Official Tour) of two plays he'd been producing locally in Los Angeles, "Southern Baptist Sissies" and "Sordid Lives". From Los Angeles to Ft. Lauderdale, he played to over 15,000 fans on the road in venues packed over the 1,200 mark.

Dottley kicked off 2006 with the revivals of both road shows at the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood. In the middle of the run, Dottley added a revival of Shores' most critically-acclaimed play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife" into the mix that starred Beth Grant in her tour-de-force, extraordinary awarded performance. The prestigious L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards honored Dottley with a "Best Production" nomination.

In 2005 Dottley joined forces with five-time Emmy and 2-time Golden Globe winning producer Alice West ("Ugly Betty", "Picket Fences", "LA Law", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal"), producer Victoria Alonso ("Sordid Lives", "Iron Man", "Kingdom of Heaven"), and Shores to create Far From Right Productions which produced the local theatre runs in association with Dottley and Shores.

In the fall of 2003, Jason enjoyed a six-week run at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood in Terrance McNally's "Lisbon Traviata" from which he received a great round of reviews for his professional stage acting debut.

Dottley studied acting at the Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory in Santa Monica, CA, at an intensive rate of 4 (to sometimes 6) acting classes per week, for over 6 months. He has been fortunate enough to study with Joan Darling, the Ivanna Chubbuck Studios and at the Groundling's.

Dottley is from Mississippi, has lived in Los Angeles since January 6th, 2000, and has been married to Del Shores since October 26, 2003.