Jeff Skowron co-created and directed, alongside Matt Yeager, the pilot "Max Riddle", which premiered at the New York Television Festival, earning Jeff the Best Actor in a Drama award. The show, a dramatic comedy, follows an awkward man with a kind heart and crippling OCD, who forms friendships for the first time, set against the backdrop of a dying American town. The pilot's strength led to a partnership with Sony Pictures Television, Lisa Kudrow, and Is or Isn't Entertainment, and was later developed as a short-form series at Topic.
Skowron also starred as Greg Mondonski in the online series "Greg & Donny", a scripted comedy about two knuckleheads from Western PA. Written by Jeff and Matt Yeager, the series ran for a full season on the internet before winning IFC's 'Out of the Box' award at the New York Television Festival for its innovative and genre-expanding pilot. The show was developed into a half-hour sitcom by IFC, greenlit to pilot, and directed by Troy Miller, with Dakota Pictures producing.
Jeff won the Best Supporting Actor award at the LA Web Series Festival for his role in Valet, directed by The Kloons.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Skowron is a classically trained actor with extensive credits at prestigious theaters across the nation. He has played leading roles in Broadway productions such as Enron, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, High Society, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Skowron created the role of Chris Bell in The Boy from Oz, opposite Hugh Jackman. He won the Los Angeles Stage Alliance's Ovation Award for Best Leading Actor for his portrayal of Leo Frank in Parade and for Best Supporting Actor as Billis in South Pacific. Skowron was nominated for Ovation Awards for Best Leading Actor for his portrayals of Leo Bloom in The Producers, Thernardier in Les Miserables, and for Best Supporting Actor as Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice. He received an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of the Baker in Into the Woods and a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Play as "Eddie" in Lost in Yonkers at Hartford Stage opposite Marsha Mason.
Skowron currently resides in New York City.
