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Jas Waters
Jas Waters
Jas Waters was an American screenwriter and journalist.
A student of Columbia College in Chicago, Waters landed in Hollywood writing for the VH1 television series The Breaks and Hood Adjacent with James Davis.
She is perhaps best known as a staff writer on the NBC television series This is Us, with Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore, and the Amazon show Kidding, starring Jim Carrey.
Jas Waters was an American screenwriter and journalist.
A student of Columbia College in Chicago, Waters landed in Hollywood writing for the VH1 television series The Breaks and Hood Adjacent with James Davis.
She is perhaps best known as a staff writer on the NBC television series This is Us, with Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore, and the Amazon show Kidding, starring Jim Carrey.
Waters contributed as a story writer on the Taraji P. Henson film What Men Want (2019), and was a journalist specializing in the hip-hop industry. She wrote her own digital column for Vibe magazine and appeared on camera in VH1's unscripted series The Gossip Game.
Waters died June 9, 2020, in Hollywood, California. She was 39.
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