News & Updates
Spring 2024
James spent three weeks contributing additional writing and dramaturgical consultation to Matt Romein’s AR/VR piece Bag of Worms.
James will be assistant directing Liza Birkenmeier’s Grief Hotel at The Public March 20th-April 20th. He is thrilled to re-join director Tara Ahmadinejad.
James’ adaptation of that King of the Hill episode where Peggy falls out of a plane will premier at The Brick on April 9th & 19th at 8pm.
Winter 2023/2024
James performed a section of Melt.Punish as part of Cocktober 2.0 at Brooklyn Art Haus on February 15th.
James performed in Margot Gage’s Our Lady Nostradamus at The Tank on February 6th.
James worked as a production assistant on Clubbed Thumb’s 2024 WinterWorks.
James wrote about Cliff Cardinal’s As You Like It at Under the Radar 2024.
James will spend two weeks in residence at PS21 with The Civilians as a part of his commission co-authoring a play on Jan Gay’s Sex Variants study.
Fall 2023
James has taken a job as Deputy Literary Wrangler at Clubbed Thumb.
James is a member of the 2023/24 R&D Group with The Civilians.
James was in a reading of Ian Reid’s play Heaven is a Place in the Sky at the Tank.
The Curator is part of the 2023 Prelude Festival. It will perform October 12th at 4:30pm EST.
James will perform Melt.Punish and The Curator at Life World on September 24th.
James has been hired in the artistic department at Playwrights Horizons as a script reader.
Summer 2023
James has begun working in the literary department of Playwrights Horizons as a script reader.
James will be performing in Matthew Antoci and Hillary Gao’s untitled Gabbie Hanna piece at IRT.
James is working on Hedgepig Ensemble’s 2023 Expand the Canon list as a dramaturg.
James was named a finalist for New Roots queer artist residency at Walhalla Farms.
James has been named a 2023 Lambda Playwriting Fellow
James is assistant directing Liza Birkenmeier’s Grief Hotel at Clubbed Thumb
Spring 2023
James has contributed additional writing to The Civilians WNYC show Fantastic Flops and Fiascos
James’ short play Attic/Basement/First Floor played at the Kraine Theater as part of Paper Kraine’s Witching Hour.
James’ play The Curator will be performed at the Brick’s ?! festival April 13th & 19th at 7pm EST.
The Curator was a semi-finalist for Ars Nova’s ANT Fest
Winter 2022/2023
James has been providing dramaturgical assistance on The Civilians’ Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
James’ Post-Cringe Manifesto has been published online.
James is working as a dramaturg on I AM MY OWN MILF as part of the Frigid Festival.
James is currently under commission from The Civilians for a play based on Jan Gay and the Sexual Variants Committee of 1935.
James will be premiering a new short play as part of the Tank’s January Edition of Rule of 7x7.
James’ play i cut myself shaving and it bled so much was named one of the Best Immersive [Theater] Moments of 2022 by NoPro.
James was in a reading of Sam Myers’ play Cow Camp.
James was in a reading of Ashil Lee’s play Rooting For You at A.R.T./New York.
James will be joining Steve Cosson for another week at the Mercury Store to dramaturg an untitled piece on Jan Gay’s Sexual Variants study.
James will be reading an excerpt from his story ‘In the Rectory’ at the launch of Issue 47 of the Washington Square Review on December 8th.
Fall 2022
James performed Revisiting Smith’s Point Live! at the Brick Aux on November 29th
James has started working as a reader for New Georges.
James will be acting in Fake Friends’ new piece as a part of their CultureHub Residency. There will be a public showing on Saturday, November 14th.
James has begun work as a dramaturg on an untitled workshop with Steve Cosson at The Mercury Store.
James was a semi-finalist for the 2022/23 R&D Group with The Civilians.
James was a finalist for the 2022/23 INKubator Cohort.
Episode Four of Revisiting Smith’s Point is available now.
James was a dramaturg on three plays for Hedgepig Ensemble’s 2022 Expand the Canon list: The Mésalliance by Luise Gottsched, Coal Dust/Dust to Earth by Shirley Graham Du Bois, and The Stone Host by Lesya Ukrainka.
Episode Three of Revisiting Smith’s Point is available now.
James will be performing as part of Chaotic Good at Art Cafe + Bar on September 8th
Revisiting Smith’s Point has begun! Episode One and Episode Two are available now.
James has joined Clubbed Thumb as an administrative assistant.
Summer 2022
James’ article ‘Netflix's "13: The Musical” Has One Huge Systemic Problem: I’m Not in It’ has been published on Broadway Beat.
James spent part of the summer studying Embodied Writing with Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley of Fake Friends.
James voiced Elwin in Andrew Child’s Elwin: The Entry-Level Pangolin.
James’ article 'Troubling: Local Man Unclear Which Circle Jerk He’s Attending Pride Weekend” has been published on Broadway Beat.
James will be working as Covid Safety Manager/Box Office Associate/Associate Company Manager for Cape Cod Theatre Project
James will be board operating Travis Amiel and Cosimo Pori’s Das Sofortvergnügen at the Tank.
James’ article “Equality Win! Theatre Company Vows to Hire Diverse Class of Summer Interns to Underpay” has been published on Broadway Beat.
Spring 2022
James has joined Broadway Beat as a contributing writer.
James will begin working as a Box Office Associate at The Brick.
James will be working as assistant stage manager on Clubbed Thumb’s production of Trish Harnetiaux’s California.
James has joined the research committee of Hedgepig Ensemble’s Expand the Canon project.
Winter 2021/2022
James will be working as a dramaturg on The Dyon Collective’s Apricity.
James article on Dana H. and While You Were Partying has been published on Extended Play.
James has joined Hedgepig Ensemble’s 2022 Expand the Canon reading committee.
An excerpt from James’ novella Seraphic Clowns and Saintly Mourners has be published in The Maine Review’s Issue #7.4
James has been selected as Candle House Collective’s 2022 FireStarter Playwright.
James is thrilled to be playing Siegfried/Flosshilde in Charles Ludlam’s Der Ring Gott Farblonjet at Columbia University.
James will be in a reading of Lia Romeo’s The Golden Door with Art House Productions.
Fall 2021
James is working as a dramaturg on The Dyon Collective’s Home’s Kitchen, premiering at The Tank on December 5th.
James will be performing at the Laurie Beechman Theater on November 1st as part of the Emerson 2020 Showcase.
Summer 2021
James’ article on Klaus Mann’s Mephisto was published on Extended Play.
James’ play Night Flowers in Every Color will be having a reading at The Tank on June 30th as part of their PrideFest Programming.
Spring 2021
James has moved to Brooklyn and will be working at The Drama Book Shop
James had a performance piece in The Bricks Out of Caution: The Next Generation - Episode 2
James had a performance piece in The Tank’s Fast And Furious #48
James was a literary intern on Grace McLean & Kate Douglas’ Against Women & Music!
The Painted Handgun was named a semi-finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
James’ interview with director Colette Robert and photographer Accra Shepp was published on Extended Play.
James was featured on BroadwayWorld as the associate dramaturg of Showing Up.
James is teaching “Introduction to Playwriting” with Glastonbury Public Schools’ Continuing Education Program.
James has begun work as an associate dramaturg on The Civilian’s Accra Shepp Photo-Project.
James’ article on Hedgepig Ensemble’s Expand the Canon project has been published on Extended Play
James has begun work as a literary intern on Darrel Alejandro Holnes’ Black Feminist Video Game with The Civilians
James’ article on Nineties Productions’ Memento Mori has been published on Extended Play
Winter 2020 / 2021
James’ profile on Cindy Cheung and Mr. Miyagi’s Theater Company was published on Extended Play
With The Civilians, James has begun literary work on Modesto Flako Jimenez & Brisa Areli Muñoz’ On the Move.
James’ profile on Derek McCormack’s Castle Faggot was published on Extended Play
James has joined the 2021 Reading Committee for Expand the Canon
-and the world is reaching behind you is a nominee for Sonder Press’ Best Small Fictions
James has joined The Civilians as a Literary Intern. He’s presently doing dramaturgical work on Sam Chanse’s what you are now.
the first and second bed monologues have been released; an audio series necessitated by James’ insomnia
James’ toy-piano playing is featured in Hayley Spivey and Abbie Goldberg’s Mary’s Dark Christmas, directed by Andrew Child.
Autumn 2020
Composer Alissa Voth has released a music video for “Technicolor Moon” from Mister Champagne, with text by James.
-and the world is reaching behind you was published by The Blood Pudding, with artwork by Samir Hamaiel
James has joined Boston’s New Repertory Theater as an Artistic Associate with New Musicals in Development.
James was a member of Guerilla Opera’s 2020 Libretto Lab
James is thrilled to have been a staff writer on Sparkhaven Theater’s ‘Tales from Camp Strangewood.’ His episode, Mister Champagne, was broadcast July 26th at 8PM EST. You can watch it here.