Hello!

James is an actor, singer, photographer, and fight choreographer with a strong passion for new work and physical theatre.

He has a BA in Film, Television, and Theatre and a minor in Musical Theatre from the University of Notre Dame, is a two-time graduate of The Performing Arts Project summer intensive, just finished The Second City's Improv Conservatory, and holds a short-course degree from LAMDA.

In his undergraduate education, he trained with professors Matt Hawkins, Siiri Scott, and Carys Kresny, and workshopped with industry professionals such as Gavin Creel, Nick Blaemire, and Mary Beth Fisher.

During this time, he studied various performance techniques, including Commedia dell'arte, Viewpoints, Laban Movement, Shakespeare, Improv, Dialect-work, and Musical Theatre performance. Through his focus on new work, he was able to help develop, workshop, and perform in multiple original plays and musicals, including assistant directing a fully-produced film. 

Off-stage, James has a zeal for Fight Choreography and Directing. He has served as an artistic collaborator for multiple new projects, as well as a producer and designer for his own production company. He has always been interested in the staging and rhythm of fights, and has served as an assistant fight choreographer in multiple university productions, and a fight captain professionally. 

Furthermore, James is a co-founder of Platform (a production company). Platform is a performing arts company that pushes the boundaries of original platform-specific performance art by exploring non-traditional spaces. Past projects have included a full-length hybrid play and a live-streamed performance that utilized live chat as an influence on the story. He works hard to realize the artistic visions of all the wonderful creators Platform collaborates with. 

In his spare time, James almost always has his eyes looking down the barrel of a camera lens or staring at his editing monitor. Photography is beauty and pain and expression and he adores it.

James recently finished two month Shakespeare intensive at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, training there and performing in Twelfth Night and The Duchess of Malfi.