Editing Jason Katims (section)

==Early life and family==
Jason Katims was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>[http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/223710/dream-team-to-produce-pilot-of-michael-sokoloves-drama-high Tablet Magazine: "Dream Team To Produce Pilot of Michael Sokolove’s ‘Drama High’ - Two Jewish producers—Jeffrey Seller of ‘Hamilton’ and Jason Katims of NBC’s ‘Friday Night Lights’—will help create a pilot for Sokolove’s critically-acclaimed book about high school theater in Levittown, PA" by Zoë Miller] retrieved October 22, 2017</ref> in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Jason Katims - Biography| url=https://tv.yahoo.com/jason-katims/contributor/569991/bio|work=Yahoo! TV|access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref> and raised first in [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] and later in [[Midwood]].<ref name=EsquireKatims>[http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a41871/jason-katims-profile/ Esquire: "The Cult of Jason Katims. The man behind Friday Night Lights and Parenthood has a gift for making men a little verklempt. It's made him a power in traditional TV. Now he's betting on something entirely different" By Mike Sager] March 30, 2016</ref> His father [[Robert Katims]] was an actor and a salesman; his mother Ruth Sandra Ohsie, an English and philosophy major, "did some teachings".<ref name="book">{{cite book| last= Meyers| first= Lawrence| title=Inside the TV Writers' Room: Practical Advice for Succeeding in Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPvw0HNU11sC&q=jason+katims&pg=PA182|publisher=Syracuse University Press|date=June 2, 2010|page=82|isbn=978-0-8156-3241-2}}</ref> His parents were  "very politically active, very left-leaning."<ref name=EsquireKatims /> He has an older brother and sister.<ref>{{cite web|first= Willa| last= Paskin| title=The Showrunner Transcript: Parenthood and Friday Night Lights' Jason Katims on Portraying Families Realistically| url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/05/jason_katims_showrunner_transc.html|work=NY Mag|access-date=September 26, 2011|date=May 20, 2011}}</ref>

Before studying theater at [[Queens College]]<ref name=Rubino5511 /> in [[Queens]], New York City,<ref>{{cite web|author=TheWBAndrew| title=The WB Sessions With Jason Katims| url=http://thesmudge.com/shapeshifter/Roswell/katims.htm|access-date=September 26, 2011|date=March 11, 2001}}</ref> he graduated from [[Edward R. Murrow High School]].<ref name="Blake">{{cite news |last1=Blake |first1=Meredith |title=With 'Rise,' Jason Katims brings Broadway drama to a small-town high school |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-rise-nbc-jason-katims-20180309-story.html |access-date=12 February 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 12, 2018}}</ref>

He married his high school sweetheart;<ref name=EsquireKatims /> they have two children, Phoebe and Sawyer Katims.