JIM WARREN
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S U M M A R Y O F Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S A N D S K I L L S
• Proven leadership, communication, and organizational dexterity in arts management
• Deft capacity to galvanize support for mission through writing and public appearances
• Inventive collaboration techniques built to maximize quality and create community in all departments
• Wide experience in all areas of business management and theatre making while growing the company
• Indefatigable work ethic fused with boundless passion to inspire employees on all levels
• Striking ability to recruit, cast, train actors to serve plays/teammates for long repertory contracts
• Honed expertise in editing scripts for large and small casts to tell provocative and fun stories
• Exceptional creativity that melds text-based core with stunning visuals and sharp language
• Demonstrated capacity to show how great art can and should be great business
E D U C A T I O N
M.F.A. Shakespeare and Performance, Mary Baldwin University
Thesis: “Creating the Colossal from Scratch:
Artistic Leadership for a New Era — Building the American Globe Center”
B.S. Theatre and English double major, James Madison University
Honors Program, Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Theatre, semester at University of London
Thesis: “Love Somebody: The Process of Directing Romeo and Juliet”
In 2008, Governor Tim Kaine awarded Jim Warren the Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts for his work with the American Shakespeare Center, which he founded in 1988 and led to profound success during his 30-year tenure. In 2015, The Folger Shakespeare Library awarded the ASC the Shakespeare Steward Award for its contributions in Shakespeare education. In 2016, the Arts Council of the Shenandoah Valley awarded the ASC its Circle of Excellence Award. In 2017, the Virginia Commission for the Arts named the ASC one of its“50 for 50 Arts Inspirations” in the category of Bedrock Institutions.
Jim founded the ASC as the traveling troupe Shenandoah Shakespeare Express and grew the company from fourteen touring performances of Richard III in Virginia to over two hundred performances of three full-length Shakespeare plays and one modern classic, performing in six countries, 47 states, and one U.S. territory by 1995. In 2001, the ASC opened the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. By the end of the 2016/17 Artistic Year, the ASC operating budget, under Jim’s leadership, surpassed $3.5 million, and the company was offering over 360 performances of sixteen titles annually. These accomplishments are part of Jim’s proof of concept for his passion project, the American Globe Center which will include the world’s only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare’s 1614 Globe theatre.
Jim retired from the ASC in 2017 to launch a solo career as a consultant, director, and educator, just after creating Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, a groundbreaking undertaking to develop a new canon of 38 plays that are inspired by and in conversation with Shakespeare’s work. This revolutionary project integrates Jim’s passion for the classics, new plays, and an inclusive expansion of the artistic community, all of which are the foundation of the American Globe Center.
C O N S U L T I N G
RUSTIC MECHANICALS; Clarksburg, WV • 2018 - 2025
• Counseled, consulted, collaborated with RM Founding Artistic Producer and staff
• Led multiple strategic planning retreats for senior staff to review/recognize
past accomplishments
• Conducted comprehensive SWOT analysis to inform strategic planning for the future
FLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL; Flagstaff, AZ • 2020, 2021, 2023
• Advised FlagShakes Artistic Director and staff on operational and artistic matters
• Collaborated on COVID protocols, rehearsing and performing in rotating repertory, doubling/casting practices, and other creative + strategic decisions and logistics
PIGEON CREEK SHAKESPEARE; Grand Haven, MI • 2022
• Crafted workshops and consulting sessions with PCS leadership and company members
NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL; Nashville, TN • 2019
• Supplied extensive strategic guidance to the NSF Artistic Director and Board of Directors
• Assisted in creating blueprint for company’s new chapter: hiring their first full-time
Managing Director in thirty years, planning their first state-wide tour, and considering
the possibility of building their own space
BALTIMORE SHAKESPEARE FACTORY; Baltimore, MD • 2018
• Consulted with the BSF Artistic Director extensively and networked with local colleges
for future partnerships
• Developed four, hour-long Shakespeare scripts to increase grant opportunities for
Baltimore area schools
• Served as member of BSF Board of Advisors
DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE; Elkins, WV • 2018
• Collaborated with the Chair of the Davis & Elkins Theatre Program, administration, and
theatre faculty
• Advised and mentored Chair on how best to revitalize a small department in a rural college
D I R E C T I N G
Director 2025 The Macbeths, by Shakespeare, Jim Warren, Jason and Sarah Young World Premiere
American Globe Center + Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2025 as yet unnamed New 2-Person Play
Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company; Grand Haven, MI + American Globe Center
Director 2025 Macbeth
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2024 Shakespeare's Villains & Clowns @ The Globe
American Globe Center; Stratford, CT
Director 2024 Julius Caesar and The Tempest
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2023 Hamlet and Henry IV, Part1 (remount)
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2023 Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2023 Shakespeare in Love
Sweet Tea Shakespeare; Fayetteville, NC
Director 2023 Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; and Othello
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2022 Love's Labour's Lost, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2021 Much Ado about Nothing, The Santaland Diaries, and The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2021 Twelfth Night
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2021 Hamlet and A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2020 No Spring Chicken, by Ginna Hoben West Coast Premiere
directed for filmed live performance
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2020 Shakespeare's Mixtape, adapted and directed for filmed live performance
The Performing Arts Conservatory at Notre Dame High School; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2020 A Midsummer Night's Dream, adapted and directed for filmed live performance
to be distributed to every middle school and high school in West Virginia
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2020 all-female Hamlet, adapted and directed for live Zoom performance
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2020 Lady Balthasar, by Ginna Hoben World Premiere staged reading for Zoom
Southwest Shakespeare Company; Mesa, AZ
Director 2019 Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!), by Michael Carleton, etc.
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2019 The Tempest
Centenary College; Shreveport, LA
Director 2019 Romeo and Juliet
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2019 A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, adapted and directed
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2019 Twelfth Night, adapted and directed
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2019 As You Like It
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2019 Henry VI, Part 1, Pop-UpRight Shakespeare
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2018 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, adapted by Le Clanche du Rand
Randolph College; Lynchburg, VA
Director 2018 A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, adapted and directed
Hollins University; Roanoke, VA
Director 2018 The Scarlet Letter, adapted and directed
Shakespeare Forum; East Harlem, NY
Director 2018 Romeo and Juliet, adapted and directed
Shakespeare Forum; East Harlem, NY
Co-Director 2018 King John, directed by Tom Delise
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory; Baltimore, MD
Director 2018 Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen,
Davis and Elkins College; Elkins, WV
T E A C H I N G
Visiting Instructor – Hollins University; Roanoke, VA January Term 2020
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for SEM 1200: “Shakespeare Boot Camp”
“Training in the fundamental skills employed by actors in Shakespeare’s original company. Students will
take the stage and perform a reduced version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Along with staging and presenting
this production to a campus audience, students will engage in experiential learning through the disciplines of
stage combat and supernatural movement.”
Visiting Instructor – Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Ctr; Loch Sheldrake, NY Summer 2019
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for eight classes, including:
“Shakespeare’s Verse and Tablework,” “Cold Readings,” and “The Art of Auditioning”
Visiting Instructor – Davis and Elkins College; Elkins, WV Spring 2018
• Taught a course load in Acting, Directing, and Stage Management for the Theatre Department
including courses at the 100, 200, and 300 levels
THRE 304: Directing I
A practical study of different theories and approaches to directing in which student artists will direct the
Acting II students in scene studies.
THRE 117: Acting II
A scene studies course working with student directors in THRE 304, examining techniques in different
theatrical genres.
THRE 234: Stage Management
Designed to study the preproduction, auditions, rehearsals, production and post-production roles of the
stage management team and learn how to properly keep a record of a production. The course also delves
into general management skills as they pertain to theatrical production.
Visiting Instructor – Hollins University; Roanoke, VA Fall 2018
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for an interdisciplinary Theatre/English course
to combine both literature analysis with performance-based learning
THEA/ENG 250: Shakespeare: Page to Stage
Examining Shakespeare through the lens of performance as well as textual analysis. Selected plays and
specific scenes will be analyzed and performed to illuminate the text and also provide understanding of the performance skills that illuminate the drama (and comedy) of the greatest playwright in the English language.
This energetic and fun course is designed for anyone interested in Shakespeare from either a performance or literary point of view.
W R I T I N G
“You Say You Want a Revolution...Rebuilding the Theatre Industry from the Ground Up After Covid-19”
• A bold call to lay out the harsh realities of the structures we have created and the hopeful possibilities of
what is possible for the theatre industry if we stop talking and start walking
• American Theatre, 29 October 2020
“A Runaway American Dream: The Birth of the ASC”
• The preface to Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen
• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 23 July 2019
Looking Back with the Lights On: A History of the American Shakespeare Center by the Artists Who Built It
• A full-length forthcoming book telling the story of the ASC’s first three decades interlaced with actor stories
Shakespeare on a Shoestring
• A full-length forthcoming book with edited versions of all 38 plays for 12, 8, and 3 actors using Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions on a tight budget – ideal for touring and suitable for mainstage productions
Doing It with the Lights On: Taking Our Cues from Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions
• A full-length forthcoming book with sections on Acting, Directing, and Producing Theatre of the Imagination
for the 21st century – how adapting four-hundred-year-old principles is the secret sauce for the survival of the theatre industry and how doing it with the lights on lets theatre shine and succeed
Directing for the American Shakespeare Center
Director 2017 Peter and the Starcatcher adapted for the stage by Rick Elice
Director 2017 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Director 2017 Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday Professional Premiere
Director 2016 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2016 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2016 Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Director 2016 The Rise of Queen Margaret (Henry VI, part 2)
Director 2016 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman
Director 2016 Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Director 2015 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2015 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2015 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2015 The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Director 2015 Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc (Henry VI, part 1)
Director 2015 Antony and Cleopatra
Director 2015 Wittenberg by David Davalos
Director 2014 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2014 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2014 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2014 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2014 Hamlet
Director 2014 Pericles
Director 2014 Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2014 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, translated by Anthony Burgess
Director 2014 Macbeth
Director 2013 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2013 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2013 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2013 Henry IV, part 1
Director 2013 Othello
Director 2013 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Director 2013 Troilus and Cressida
Director 2013 Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
Director 2013 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2012 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2012 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2012 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2012 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Director 2012 Love’s Labour’s Lost
Director 2012 King John
Director 2012 Cymbeline
Director 2012 The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
Director 2012 The Merchant of Venice
Director 2011 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2011 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2011 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2011 ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford
Director 2011 The Winter’s Tale
Director 2011 Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2011 Hamlet
Director 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Director 2011 The Tempest
Director 2010 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben World Premiere
Director 2010 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2010 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2010 Measure for Measure
Director 2010 As You Like It
Director 2010 Macbeth
Director 2010 The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood
Director 2010 Wild Oats by John O’Keeffe
Director 2010 Othello
Director 2010 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 2009 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2009 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2009 All’s Well That Ends Well
Director 2009 The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
Director 2009 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2009 The Rehearsal by George Villiers and others
Director 2009 Titus Andronicus
Director 2009 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Director 2009 Much Ado about Nothing
Director 2008 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2008 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2008 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 2008 Hamlet
Director 2008 King Lear
Director 2007 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren World Premiere
Director 2007 Antony and Cleopatra
Director 2007 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 2007 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2006 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2006 Othello
Director 2006 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, translated by Anthony Burgess
Director 2006 As You Like It
Director 2006 Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard
Director 2005 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2005 Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
Director 2005 The Three Musketeers adapted by David Richmond
Director 2005 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Director 2004 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2004 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
Director 2004 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Director 2004 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director 2004 Falstaff adapted by Ralph Alan Cohen
Director 2003 Tartuffe by Moliere, translated by Christopher Hampton
Director 2003 The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
Director 2003 Henry IV, part 1
Director 2002 Coriolanus
Director 2002 Julius Caesar
Director 2002 Macbeth
Director 2001 An American Christmas Carol, 1852 by Robert Smalls
Director 2001 Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Director 2001 The Comedy of Errors
Director 2001 As You Like It
Director 2001 Hamlet
Director 2001 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 2000 The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
Director 2000 Othello
Director 2000 Richard II
Director 1999 The Merchant of Venice
Director 1999 Much Ado about Nothing
Director 1999 Hamlet
Director 1998 Measure for Measure
Director 1998 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 1998 Romeo and Juliet
Director 1997 Henry IV, part 1
Director 1997 Macbeth
Director 1997 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director 1996 Henry V
Director 1996 The Comedy of Errors
Director 1995 The Tempest
Director 1995 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 1994 Othello
Director 1993 Romeo and Juliet
Director 1992 Macbeth
Director 1991 Twelfth Night
Director 1989 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 1988 Richard III
Road Director 1995 Hamlet
Road Director 1995 Twelfth Night
Road Director 1994 Much Ado about Nothing
Road Director 1994 The Taming of the Shrew
Road Director 1993 Antony and Cleopatra
Road Director 1993 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Road Director 1992 The Merchant of Venice
Road Director 1991 Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Road Director 1991 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
New Works Developed and Produced for the ASC
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben World Premiere
Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday Professional Premiere
Sense and Sensibility adapted by Emma Whipday World Premiere
A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren World Premiere
Falstaff by Ralph Alan Cohen World Premiere
The Brats of Clarence by Paul Menzer World Premiere
Directing World Premiere Plays Outside ASC
Director 2001 Bliss, by Cleve Lamison
Blackbird Theatre Company, off-Broadway, NYC
Director 1997 The Persistence of Memory, by Harry Kollatz, Jr.
the Firehouse Theatre Project; Richmond, VA
Director 1997 The Black Bird, by Cleve Lamison
Blackbird Theatre Company, off-Broadway, NYC
G R A N T S
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Center for Renaissance and Shakespearean Staging,”
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Women on the Page and Stage,”
funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, Folger Institute Workshop
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Bringing Shakespeare Home,”
funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
PASSION PROJECT: A M E R I C A N G L O B E C E N T E R
New England will soon house the world’s only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare’s 1614 Globe Theatre, along with the AGC Playhouse, (a modern performing arts and education center with a state-
of-the-art mainstage and blackbox), a visual arts gallery, gathering areas, gardens, and green space.
The American Globe Center will be a regional, national, and international destination – performing engaging, heart-wrenching, gut-busting, entertainment-guaranteed classical theatre, alongside the best of modern plays, as well as trailblazing new plays, for thousands of visitors from all around the world.
www.americanglobecenter.org
• Proven leadership, communication, and organizational dexterity in arts management
• Deft capacity to galvanize support for mission through writing and public appearances
• Inventive collaboration techniques built to maximize quality and create community in all departments
• Wide experience in all areas of business management and theatre making while growing the company
• Indefatigable work ethic fused with boundless passion to inspire employees on all levels
• Striking ability to recruit, cast, train actors to serve plays/teammates for long repertory contracts
• Honed expertise in editing scripts for large and small casts to tell provocative and fun stories
• Exceptional creativity that melds text-based core with stunning visuals and sharp language
• Demonstrated capacity to show how great art can and should be great business
E D U C A T I O N
M.F.A. Shakespeare and Performance, Mary Baldwin University
Thesis: “Creating the Colossal from Scratch:
Artistic Leadership for a New Era — Building the American Globe Center”
B.S. Theatre and English double major, James Madison University
Honors Program, Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Theatre, semester at University of London
Thesis: “Love Somebody: The Process of Directing Romeo and Juliet”
In 2008, Governor Tim Kaine awarded Jim Warren the Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts for his work with the American Shakespeare Center, which he founded in 1988 and led to profound success during his 30-year tenure. In 2015, The Folger Shakespeare Library awarded the ASC the Shakespeare Steward Award for its contributions in Shakespeare education. In 2016, the Arts Council of the Shenandoah Valley awarded the ASC its Circle of Excellence Award. In 2017, the Virginia Commission for the Arts named the ASC one of its“50 for 50 Arts Inspirations” in the category of Bedrock Institutions.
Jim founded the ASC as the traveling troupe Shenandoah Shakespeare Express and grew the company from fourteen touring performances of Richard III in Virginia to over two hundred performances of three full-length Shakespeare plays and one modern classic, performing in six countries, 47 states, and one U.S. territory by 1995. In 2001, the ASC opened the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. By the end of the 2016/17 Artistic Year, the ASC operating budget, under Jim’s leadership, surpassed $3.5 million, and the company was offering over 360 performances of sixteen titles annually. These accomplishments are part of Jim’s proof of concept for his passion project, the American Globe Center which will include the world’s only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare’s 1614 Globe theatre.
Jim retired from the ASC in 2017 to launch a solo career as a consultant, director, and educator, just after creating Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, a groundbreaking undertaking to develop a new canon of 38 plays that are inspired by and in conversation with Shakespeare’s work. This revolutionary project integrates Jim’s passion for the classics, new plays, and an inclusive expansion of the artistic community, all of which are the foundation of the American Globe Center.
C O N S U L T I N G
RUSTIC MECHANICALS; Clarksburg, WV • 2018 - 2025
• Counseled, consulted, collaborated with RM Founding Artistic Producer and staff
• Led multiple strategic planning retreats for senior staff to review/recognize
past accomplishments
• Conducted comprehensive SWOT analysis to inform strategic planning for the future
FLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL; Flagstaff, AZ • 2020, 2021, 2023
• Advised FlagShakes Artistic Director and staff on operational and artistic matters
• Collaborated on COVID protocols, rehearsing and performing in rotating repertory, doubling/casting practices, and other creative + strategic decisions and logistics
PIGEON CREEK SHAKESPEARE; Grand Haven, MI • 2022
• Crafted workshops and consulting sessions with PCS leadership and company members
NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL; Nashville, TN • 2019
• Supplied extensive strategic guidance to the NSF Artistic Director and Board of Directors
• Assisted in creating blueprint for company’s new chapter: hiring their first full-time
Managing Director in thirty years, planning their first state-wide tour, and considering
the possibility of building their own space
BALTIMORE SHAKESPEARE FACTORY; Baltimore, MD • 2018
• Consulted with the BSF Artistic Director extensively and networked with local colleges
for future partnerships
• Developed four, hour-long Shakespeare scripts to increase grant opportunities for
Baltimore area schools
• Served as member of BSF Board of Advisors
DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE; Elkins, WV • 2018
• Collaborated with the Chair of the Davis & Elkins Theatre Program, administration, and
theatre faculty
• Advised and mentored Chair on how best to revitalize a small department in a rural college
D I R E C T I N G
Director 2025 The Macbeths, by Shakespeare, Jim Warren, Jason and Sarah Young World Premiere
American Globe Center + Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2025 as yet unnamed New 2-Person Play
Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company; Grand Haven, MI + American Globe Center
Director 2025 Macbeth
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2024 Shakespeare's Villains & Clowns @ The Globe
American Globe Center; Stratford, CT
Director 2024 Julius Caesar and The Tempest
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2023 Hamlet and Henry IV, Part1 (remount)
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2023 Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2023 Shakespeare in Love
Sweet Tea Shakespeare; Fayetteville, NC
Director 2023 Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; and Othello
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2022 Love's Labour's Lost, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline
Rustic Mechanicals; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2021 Much Ado about Nothing, The Santaland Diaries, and The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2021 Twelfth Night
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2021 Hamlet and A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2020 No Spring Chicken, by Ginna Hoben West Coast Premiere
directed for filmed live performance
Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival; Flagstaff, AZ
Director 2020 Shakespeare's Mixtape, adapted and directed for filmed live performance
The Performing Arts Conservatory at Notre Dame High School; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2020 A Midsummer Night's Dream, adapted and directed for filmed live performance
to be distributed to every middle school and high school in West Virginia
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2020 all-female Hamlet, adapted and directed for live Zoom performance
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2020 Lady Balthasar, by Ginna Hoben World Premiere staged reading for Zoom
Southwest Shakespeare Company; Mesa, AZ
Director 2019 Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!), by Michael Carleton, etc.
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2019 The Tempest
Centenary College; Shreveport, LA
Director 2019 Romeo and Juliet
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2019 A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, adapted and directed
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2019 Twelfth Night, adapted and directed
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center; Loch Sheldrake, NY
Director 2019 As You Like It
Vintage Theatre Company; Clarksburg, WV
Director 2019 Henry VI, Part 1, Pop-UpRight Shakespeare
Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Nashville, TN
Director 2018 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, adapted by Le Clanche du Rand
Randolph College; Lynchburg, VA
Director 2018 A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, adapted and directed
Hollins University; Roanoke, VA
Director 2018 The Scarlet Letter, adapted and directed
Shakespeare Forum; East Harlem, NY
Director 2018 Romeo and Juliet, adapted and directed
Shakespeare Forum; East Harlem, NY
Co-Director 2018 King John, directed by Tom Delise
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory; Baltimore, MD
Director 2018 Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen,
Davis and Elkins College; Elkins, WV
T E A C H I N G
Visiting Instructor – Hollins University; Roanoke, VA January Term 2020
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for SEM 1200: “Shakespeare Boot Camp”
“Training in the fundamental skills employed by actors in Shakespeare’s original company. Students will
take the stage and perform a reduced version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Along with staging and presenting
this production to a campus audience, students will engage in experiential learning through the disciplines of
stage combat and supernatural movement.”
Visiting Instructor – Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Ctr; Loch Sheldrake, NY Summer 2019
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for eight classes, including:
“Shakespeare’s Verse and Tablework,” “Cold Readings,” and “The Art of Auditioning”
Visiting Instructor – Davis and Elkins College; Elkins, WV Spring 2018
• Taught a course load in Acting, Directing, and Stage Management for the Theatre Department
including courses at the 100, 200, and 300 levels
THRE 304: Directing I
A practical study of different theories and approaches to directing in which student artists will direct the
Acting II students in scene studies.
THRE 117: Acting II
A scene studies course working with student directors in THRE 304, examining techniques in different
theatrical genres.
THRE 234: Stage Management
Designed to study the preproduction, auditions, rehearsals, production and post-production roles of the
stage management team and learn how to properly keep a record of a production. The course also delves
into general management skills as they pertain to theatrical production.
Visiting Instructor – Hollins University; Roanoke, VA Fall 2018
• Created and taught curriculum/syllabus for an interdisciplinary Theatre/English course
to combine both literature analysis with performance-based learning
THEA/ENG 250: Shakespeare: Page to Stage
Examining Shakespeare through the lens of performance as well as textual analysis. Selected plays and
specific scenes will be analyzed and performed to illuminate the text and also provide understanding of the performance skills that illuminate the drama (and comedy) of the greatest playwright in the English language.
This energetic and fun course is designed for anyone interested in Shakespeare from either a performance or literary point of view.
W R I T I N G
“You Say You Want a Revolution...Rebuilding the Theatre Industry from the Ground Up After Covid-19”
• A bold call to lay out the harsh realities of the structures we have created and the hopeful possibilities of
what is possible for the theatre industry if we stop talking and start walking
• American Theatre, 29 October 2020
“A Runaway American Dream: The Birth of the ASC”
• The preface to Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen
• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 23 July 2019
Looking Back with the Lights On: A History of the American Shakespeare Center by the Artists Who Built It
• A full-length forthcoming book telling the story of the ASC’s first three decades interlaced with actor stories
Shakespeare on a Shoestring
• A full-length forthcoming book with edited versions of all 38 plays for 12, 8, and 3 actors using Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions on a tight budget – ideal for touring and suitable for mainstage productions
Doing It with the Lights On: Taking Our Cues from Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions
• A full-length forthcoming book with sections on Acting, Directing, and Producing Theatre of the Imagination
for the 21st century – how adapting four-hundred-year-old principles is the secret sauce for the survival of the theatre industry and how doing it with the lights on lets theatre shine and succeed
Directing for the American Shakespeare Center
Director 2017 Peter and the Starcatcher adapted for the stage by Rick Elice
Director 2017 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Director 2017 Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday Professional Premiere
Director 2016 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2016 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2016 Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Director 2016 The Rise of Queen Margaret (Henry VI, part 2)
Director 2016 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman
Director 2016 Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Director 2015 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2015 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2015 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2015 The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Director 2015 Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc (Henry VI, part 1)
Director 2015 Antony and Cleopatra
Director 2015 Wittenberg by David Davalos
Director 2014 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2014 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2014 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2014 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2014 Hamlet
Director 2014 Pericles
Director 2014 Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2014 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, translated by Anthony Burgess
Director 2014 Macbeth
Director 2013 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2013 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2013 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2013 Henry IV, part 1
Director 2013 Othello
Director 2013 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Director 2013 Troilus and Cressida
Director 2013 Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
Director 2013 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2012 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2012 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2012 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2012 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Director 2012 Love’s Labour’s Lost
Director 2012 King John
Director 2012 Cymbeline
Director 2012 The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
Director 2012 The Merchant of Venice
Director 2011 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Director 2011 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2011 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2011 ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford
Director 2011 The Winter’s Tale
Director 2011 Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe
Director 2011 Hamlet
Director 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Director 2011 The Tempest
Director 2010 The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben World Premiere
Director 2010 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2010 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2010 Measure for Measure
Director 2010 As You Like It
Director 2010 Macbeth
Director 2010 The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood
Director 2010 Wild Oats by John O’Keeffe
Director 2010 Othello
Director 2010 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 2009 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2009 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2009 All’s Well That Ends Well
Director 2009 The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
Director 2009 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2009 The Rehearsal by George Villiers and others
Director 2009 Titus Andronicus
Director 2009 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Director 2009 Much Ado about Nothing
Director 2008 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren
Director 2008 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2008 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 2008 Hamlet
Director 2008 King Lear
Director 2007 A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren World Premiere
Director 2007 Antony and Cleopatra
Director 2007 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 2007 Romeo and Juliet
Director 2006 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2006 Othello
Director 2006 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, translated by Anthony Burgess
Director 2006 As You Like It
Director 2006 Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard
Director 2005 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2005 Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
Director 2005 The Three Musketeers adapted by David Richmond
Director 2005 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Director 2004 The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Director 2004 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
Director 2004 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Director 2004 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director 2004 Falstaff adapted by Ralph Alan Cohen
Director 2003 Tartuffe by Moliere, translated by Christopher Hampton
Director 2003 The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
Director 2003 Henry IV, part 1
Director 2002 Coriolanus
Director 2002 Julius Caesar
Director 2002 Macbeth
Director 2001 An American Christmas Carol, 1852 by Robert Smalls
Director 2001 Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Director 2001 The Comedy of Errors
Director 2001 As You Like It
Director 2001 Hamlet
Director 2001 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 2000 The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
Director 2000 Othello
Director 2000 Richard II
Director 1999 The Merchant of Venice
Director 1999 Much Ado about Nothing
Director 1999 Hamlet
Director 1998 Measure for Measure
Director 1998 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 1998 Romeo and Juliet
Director 1997 Henry IV, part 1
Director 1997 Macbeth
Director 1997 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director 1996 Henry V
Director 1996 The Comedy of Errors
Director 1995 The Tempest
Director 1995 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Director 1994 Othello
Director 1993 Romeo and Juliet
Director 1992 Macbeth
Director 1991 Twelfth Night
Director 1989 The Taming of the Shrew
Director 1988 Richard III
Road Director 1995 Hamlet
Road Director 1995 Twelfth Night
Road Director 1994 Much Ado about Nothing
Road Director 1994 The Taming of the Shrew
Road Director 1993 Antony and Cleopatra
Road Director 1993 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Road Director 1992 The Merchant of Venice
Road Director 1991 Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Road Director 1991 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
New Works Developed and Produced for the ASC
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben World Premiere
Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday Professional Premiere
Sense and Sensibility adapted by Emma Whipday World Premiere
A Christmas Carol adapted by Jim Warren World Premiere
Falstaff by Ralph Alan Cohen World Premiere
The Brats of Clarence by Paul Menzer World Premiere
Directing World Premiere Plays Outside ASC
Director 2001 Bliss, by Cleve Lamison
Blackbird Theatre Company, off-Broadway, NYC
Director 1997 The Persistence of Memory, by Harry Kollatz, Jr.
the Firehouse Theatre Project; Richmond, VA
Director 1997 The Black Bird, by Cleve Lamison
Blackbird Theatre Company, off-Broadway, NYC
G R A N T S
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Center for Renaissance and Shakespearean Staging,”
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Women on the Page and Stage,”
funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, Folger Institute Workshop
• Facilitator and Actor Liaison, “Bringing Shakespeare Home,”
funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
PASSION PROJECT: A M E R I C A N G L O B E C E N T E R
New England will soon house the world’s only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare’s 1614 Globe Theatre, along with the AGC Playhouse, (a modern performing arts and education center with a state-
of-the-art mainstage and blackbox), a visual arts gallery, gathering areas, gardens, and green space.
The American Globe Center will be a regional, national, and international destination – performing engaging, heart-wrenching, gut-busting, entertainment-guaranteed classical theatre, alongside the best of modern plays, as well as trailblazing new plays, for thousands of visitors from all around the world.
www.americanglobecenter.org
JIM WARREN
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