Jayson Bryan Louis June, 36, of Hollywood Hills California, passed away unexpectedly on May 28th, 2023, while camping in the Santa Barbara mountains. He was born, Bryan Louis Reynolds, on November 6th, 1986 in Saginaw, Michigan to Jay and Karen (Kleekamp) Reynolds. He was the beloved husband of Kelsey (Byers) June, and the adored brother of Kari, Heidi, and Dan.

Bryan was curious, observant, warm, and funny, with a rare gift for making all those around him feel comfortable. He graduated from Heritage High School in Saginaw, Michigan, where he participated in marching band, choir, and theater. Bryan also received education from Saginaw Valley State University and ultimately earned Bachelor degrees in psychology and linguistics from Michigan State University. He moved to Chicago where he found work in film production, and honed his skills in writing and sketch comedy through improv classes at Second City. It wasn’t long before Bryan and his friends Ned, Richie, Spencer, Ellie, Asif, and Johnny formed their own improv troupe, Forbidden Something, and performed throughout the city.

Bryan met the love of his life, Kelsey, in 2015, on a dating app and they quickly met for their first date over coffee at the Bourgeois Pig coffee house on the north side of Chicago. Six months later, on Christmas morning in 2015, they were engaged. They were married in 2017 at Camp Newaygo in Newaygo, MI, and moved to Los Angeles in 2019, where Bryan was employed by Visual Data Media Services, and worked as a Client Services Account Manager.

Bryan was a man of many talents and many laughs. He possessed a humility that allowed him to express those gifts with an element of surprise. He was an expert pumpkin pie maker, a reliable Mr. Fix It, a playful creator of puns, a humorous storyteller, a wizard at Balderdash, a master pumpkin carver, a whimsical twister of balloons, and exceptional writer of sappy love poems and greeting cards for his wife. He often gifted friends and family with his intricate and personalized cross-stitched artwork. Bryan loved the outdoors, astronomy, geology, film and television, writing, and was the ultimate SNL fanboy. He was an Eagle Scout, a careful tender to plants, and a devoted dog dad to Mowgli and Nugget.

Bryan, known to his LA friends and colleagues as JB, was also a disciplined writer of television and feature scripts, participating in a bi-weekly script writing group with friends Marissa, Senta, Sharon, Jack, and Sophiyaa, where he was known for his abundance of ideas, imaginative characters, and thoughtful feedback. One of his proudest moments in his time in LA was in late 2019 when his pilot script for an animated series, Wyldcats, was selected and performed in a live table read for an audience, bringing life to characters and stories only known on paper.

Bryan is survived by his wife Kelsey June, his parents Jay and Karen Reynolds, his sisters Heidi and Kari, his brother Dan, brother-in-law Brady, and his nieces and nephew Jay and Lilly. Memorial services will be held in Chicago and Michigan at locations and dates still to be determined. In lieu of flowers, donations in Bryan’s memory can be made to the Entertainment Community Fund by going to their website, https://entertainmentcommunit….

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