Bio

Mike James was born in the Lake Quinault Rain Forest in northwest Washington. He moved to Boyd County in Kentucky, attended high school in Juneau, Alaska, studied at Colorado College for a year, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Then he moved to New York and enrolled in the William Esper Studio, graduating mere moments ago.

Mike James has performed in New York: The Three Sisters, Columbia University; The Misanthrope, PS122; She of the Voice, PS122; Brains, Looking Glass Theatre, Dixon Place, Oracle Theater, Spoke the Hub; Clocked, Columbia University; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, NY Int’l Fringe Festival (Time Out NY Critics’ Pick), CSV Flamboyan Theater (premiere), New Dramatists (reading); The Assembly’s What I Took in my Hands, Ontological-Hysteric. Edinburgh Fringe: We Can’t Reach You, Hartford, Fringe First Nomination; Tone Clusters. Perseverance Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Waiting for Godot, & The Winter’s Tale, dir. Peter DuBois; Wit, dir. Terry Cramer.

At Wesleyan, Mike performed in thesis films, and worked with theater professors Yuriy Kordonskiy & Cláudia Nascimento. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., History Major, High Honors. He has studied Suzuki and Viewpoints with the SITI Company, and is a graduate of the two-year Meisner training program at the William Esper Studio.