James Wallace
artistic director
artistic director
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He grew up in London and Rio de Janeiro, went to the University of Edinburgh, then trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1993
He has acted in the West End, on Broadway, with the National and the RSC, and in theatre throughout the UK, Ireland and North America, as well as in film and TV Involved with Shakespeare's Globe since 1998, acting, directing, teaching and researching, he has staged over 70 plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries for their long-running Read Not Dead project He has written for Shakespeare Bulletin, Around the Globe magazine, contributed a chapter on Read Not Dead in Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment (CUP), and has presented new research on the Court dramatist John Lyly at conferences at King's College, London, and at the Shakespeare Association of America |
Photo - Anna Hull
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director
for THE DOLPHIN'S BACK
2021 Fulgens & Lucres by Henry Medwall Live Zoom performance for Stanford Renaissances Focus Group 2019 Christmas, His Masque by Ben Jonson Spitalfields Market, for MOLA & The Curtain, Shoreditch Burbage v Brayne, legal documents of The Theatre, Shoreditch Shake It Up Festival, Shoreditch Town Hall The Misfortunes of Arthur, Uther Pendragon's Son by Thomas Hughes Gray's Inn Chapel 2018 Christmas, His Masque by Ben Jonson Spitalfields Market, for MOLA & The Curtain, Shoreditch 2017 The Woman in the Moon by John Lyly The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2015 Samuel Daniel & John Danyell The Britten Theatre 2014 The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe The Rose Playhouse, Bankside The Woman in the Moon by John Lyly The Rose Playhouse, Bankside for READ NOT DEAD
Shakespeare's Globe 2019 Edward I by George Peele, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Charles Kraszewski, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Captain by John Fletcher, St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch 2018 Sir Thomas More by Munday & others, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Sir John van Olden Barnavelt by Massinger, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2017 co-ordinator Before Shakepeare RND season, including: Mucedorus by anon, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Sapho and Phao by John Lyly, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2016 Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Scornful Lady by Beaumont and Fletcher, Tudor Hall at Gray's Inn 2015
The Troublesome Reign of King John by George Peele, Inner Temple Hall The Lover's Melancholy by John Ford, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Fancies, Chaste and Noble by John Ford, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse The Injured Princess, Thomas D'Urfey's Restoration version of Cymbeline 2014
Life Is A Dream by Calderón de la Barca, Arcola Theatre Amends For Ladies by Nathan Field, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Damon and Pythias by Richard Edwards, Middle Temple Hall 2013
The Woman in the Moon by John Lyly, at the Glastonbury Festival Gallathea by John Lyly, at the Wilderness Festival Supposes by George Gascoigne, Tudor Hall at Gray's Inn 1998 - 2012
Directed fifty more, including plays by Philip Massinger, John Ford, George Chapman, James Shirley, Thomas Kyd, Lording Barry, John Fletcher, Thomas Jordan, Robert Wilson, Richard Brome, William Davenant, Thomas Heywood, John Day, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Anthony Munday and Thomas Middleton. He has acted in a further 40 other directing work
Samuel Foote's The Liar Readings of Lady Audley's Secret in Alexandra Palace & John Lyly's Gallathea in Inigo Jones' Queen's House at Greenwich also...
Five filmed scenes for the AHRC funded Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) project in conjunction with the Victoria & Albert Museum, working with John Wyver of Illuminations Films |
actor
3 year actor training
Central School of Speech & Drama first job in 1993, straight out of drama school, touring 75 towns and cities around Italy for five months, playing Vladimir in Waiting for Godot Shakespeare . . .
Sea Captain & Priest in Twelfth Night The National Theatre, Simon Godwin Don John in Much Ado About Nothing Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds , Abigail Anderson Antonio in The Tempest Liverpool Playhouse, Philip Franks Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew Regent's Park, Rachel Kavanaugh Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream Regent's Park, Ian Talbot Poins in Henry IV parts 1 & 2 RSC Barbican, Michael Attenborough Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice Edinburgh Lyceum, Kenny Ireland Rosencrantz in Hamlet Almeida at Hackney Empire, & on Broadway, Jonathan Kent Nominated Best Revival, 49th Tony Awards 1995 Winner of the The Sir Tyrone Guthrie Award- for Best Production at the Shakespeare Globe Awards - . . . and others
Volpone by Ben Jonson The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster both at Greenwich Theatre, Elizabeth Freestone Tartuffe by Moliere Almeida Theatre, Jonathan Kent The Mayor of Zalamea by Calderón Liverpool Everyman, Gemma Bodinetz Ireland & Scotland
for Rough Magic and Lynne Parker Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Terry Johnson's Dead Funny Project Theatre, Dublin Frances Sheridan & Liz Kuti's The Whisperers Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Galway, and Traverse, Edinburgh and also... Michael Frayn's Benefactors for B*Spoke, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin Tennessee Williams UK premieres
Something Cloudy, Something Clear Finborough - Tamara Harvey The Notebook of Trigorin Northcote Exeter, as Trigorin new work
After Electra by April de Angelis, Plymouth Drum & Tricycle, Samuel West 55 Days by Howard Brenton, Hampstead Theatre, Howard Davies Nominated Best New Play 2013 WhatsOnStage awards Backbeat by Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys West End, Toronto & Los Angeles, David Leveaux Nominated Best Ensemble Performance 2012 WhatsOnStage awards Mathematics of the Heart by Kefi Chadwick, Donnacadh O'Briain Winner 2011 Brighton Fringe Festival Best New Play Winner Argus Angel for Outstanding Show Vermilion Dream by Chris Lee, Salisbury Theatre Studio, Nina Raine around the UK
Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia by Tom Stoppard The Library Theatre at The Lowry, Chris Honer Nominated Best Supporting Actor & Best Production MEN Awards 2011 Elyot in Private Lives by Noel Coward Manchester Library Theatre, Chris Honer Nominated Best Play, MEN Awards 2007 Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard English Touring Theatre, Stephen Unwin Witwould in The Way of the World by William Congreve Wilton's Music Hall, & Northampton Theatre Royal, Selina Cadell Henri in Life X3 Yasmina Reza The Watermill Theatre, Sarah Esdaile, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde West Yorkshire Playhouse, Lynne Parker Cecil Graham in Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Chichester Festival Theatre, Richard Cottrell Wives as The Were, and Maids as They Are by Elizabeth Inchbald Animal Magnetism by Elizabeth Inchbald Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestly all at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Colin Blumenau Norman in Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn Mill Theatre at Sonning, Abigail Anderson teaching
Globe Education Practitioner and Faculty Member,
working with The Royal Conservertoire of Scotland, Exeter University, East 15, and students from New Zealand, and from across the USA. Central visiting director – Othello, As You Like It, Pericles LAMDA visting director – Women Beware Women, Jacobean Scenes Arts Educational visiting director – Jacobean Scenes
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