Video from Live Talks Los Angeles event Jason Alexander in conversation with Val Zavala discussing his career on Stage, Television and Film. Event was held January 25, 2012 at The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The persona of George Costanza, created by versatile actor/writer/director Jason Alexander, has been dubbed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “Best Television Sidekicks of All Time” (#3 actually, behind Robin and Tonto). The hapless, thoughtless, neurotic everyman that he played for nine seasons on NBC’s “Seinfeld” garnered him six Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations, an American Television Award and two American Comedy Awards for “Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series.” The Screen Actors Guild named him “Best Actor in a Comedy Series,” despite his role as a supporting actor, and he led a TV Guide Readers and Critics Poll that named him one of the top 10 characters in TV history. “Seinfeld” remains the most successful half hour television series throughout the world. Fifteen years before “Seinfeld,” Alexander was building a career that would include performing Tony Award-winning Broadway roles as well as appearing in major film and television projects, producing, directing and writing. After studying at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, he moved to New York to pursue a theater career. His notable Broadway debut came in Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical production of Merrily We Roll Along. He also starred in productions of Forbidden Broadway, The Rink, Stop the World…, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, Personals, Light Up the Sky, Michael Stewart’s “D,” and Accomplice, to name a few. Though known at the time mainly as an actor, Alexander was asked by Jerome Robbins to write the narrative book for his revue Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. To perform it, Alexander would play 14 different characters at every performance. And for that chameleon-like ability, he won the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards as “Best Actor in a Musical.” The show he authored went on to win Best Musical. After winning the Tony Award in 1989, Alexander was cast in two projects that would change the direction of his career and his life. The first was his role as Richard Gere’s wily and misogynistic lawyer in Pretty Woman. The second was winning the role of George in “Seinfeld,” which made him recognizable throughout the world as a figure that some would slap, some would cuddle, but all would love. Since moving to Los Angeles, film and television have been the focus of his work. His film credits include Hachiko: A Dog’s Story, The Burning (notable as the first film by Harvey and Bob Weinstein), Mosquito Coast, White Palace, Jacob’s Ladder, Coneheads, The Paper, North, Blankman, Dunston Checks In, Love, Valor, Compassion, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Shallow Hal and Ira and Abby. In 1996 Alexander formed his production company, AngelArk Entertainment, and has gone on to direct the features For Better or Worse with Lolita Davidovich and James Woods, as well as Just Looking with Gretchen Mol. AngelArk has also been successful producing the television shows “Ultimate Trek,” “Bob Patterson” and “Listen Up” and the films Agent Cody Banks and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. Alexander has been a staple of television viewing far beyond his years on “Seinfeld.” He starred on the series “Everything’s Relative,” “E.R.,” “Bob Patterson” and “Listen Up.” He has guested on “Newhart,” “Dream On,” “The Nanny,” “Remember WENN,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Friends,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Monk,” and “Everybody Hates Chris.” He has also directed episodes of “Remember WENN,” “Campus Ladies,” “Everybody Hates Chris” and “Seinfeld,” for which he was nominated for a DGA Award. Alexander also starred in several films for television, including: “Rockabye,” “Favorite Son,” “Cinderella,” “The Man Who Saved Christmas,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “A Christmas Carol.” Commercials have been a consistent part of his career as he has participated in several historic commercial campaigns. Today, most of his commercial work is as a director of both commercials and music videos. His most recent video, Brad Paisley’s “Cooler Online,” recently won him the honor of directing the “Country Music Video of the Year” at the CMA’s in November 2007. His voice has been featured in both film (Aladdin 2: The Return of Jafar, The Hunchback of Notre Dame I and II, Madeline: Lost in Paris, The Trumpet of the Swan, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure, Farce of the Penguins) and television (“Dinosaurs,” “Aladdin,” “Hercules,” “Dilbert,” “The Legend of Tarzan,” “House of Mouse,” “Odd Job Jack” and as the star of the cult animation classic, “Duckman”). When Alexander is not appeari