Dallas Jenkins

Dallas Jenkins (birthname: Dallas Lawrence Jenkins) is a Christian-based director/writer/producer best known as the creator of the long-running television saga about the birth of Christianity, The Chosen (2017-2024). Jenkins made his feature debut as director/producer with the drama, Midnight Clear (2006), based on his 2005 short film as well as father and best-selling author Jerry Jenkins’ short story of the same title, co-starring Stephen Baldwin and K Callan, and released by Lionsgate.

Jenkins was director/producer of the romantic family drama, What If… (2010), co-starring Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, and John Ratzenberger, which grossed less than $1 million worldwide. Jenkins was again director/producer of the Christian drama-comedy, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017), with Brett Dalton, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Neil Flynn, and D.B. Sweeney, co-produced with Blumhouse Productions but which lost money with a $2.3 million global return (against $2 million costs).

Jenkins returned to the big screen seven years later as director/executive producer of the family comedy based on Barbara Robinson’s 1972 children’s novel, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024), starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Bell Wright and Lauren Graham, and released wide by Lionsgate.

Jenkins was producer or executive producer on several projects, including producer of Hometown Legend (2002), based on Jerry Jenkins’ novel and co-starring Terry O’Quinn, Lacey Chabert, and Nick Cornish under James Anderson’s direction, and released by Warner Bros.; executive producer on the documentary, Unfiltered: Gen Z Reacts to The Chosen, directed by Jacob Schwarz and featuring Josephine Chiang; and executive producer on director/writer Brock Heasley’s sci-fi thriller, The Shift (2023), co-starring Kristoffer Polaha, Neal McDonough and Elizabeth Tabish, and returning a global gross of $12.2 million.