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James Fitzgerald

James.FitzgeraldAEA

fitzjamie1@yahoo.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/James_FitzGerald/


RESUME


Highlights

Producer/Artistic Director

  • Artistic Director of Rare Theatricals Ltd

Playwriting

  • Co-author of Every Christmas Story Ever Told, 34 productions this year, slated to be performed in Tokyo & Hong Kong
  • Jim has co-authored six additional plays that have been produced in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Cape May, Milwaukee, Boston, and Orlando
  •  After Dark™ Award - Author, Best New Work - Two for the Show,  Chicago, 2006

Acting

  • AEA Member
  • OE Award - Nomination- Best Actor - Taming of the Shrew  Omaha, NE  2006
  • Joseph Jefferson Award - Nomination - Author, Best New Work “... Two for the Show,...” – Chicago, IL   2006
  • Joseph Jefferson Award – Best Supporting Actor – Kismet    1997
  • Joseph Jefferson Award - Best Supporting Actor -- Assassins   1997
  • Joseph Jefferson Award - Nomination - Actor in a Principal Role - The Goodbye Girl   1994
  • Joseph Jefferson Citation - Outstanding Achievement as Actor in Supporting Role – GREEK  1994
Projects while enrolled as an M.F.A. candidate
  • Jane Eyre, PICT
  • Salome, PICT 
  • Ideal Husband, PICT
  • Mouth to Mouth, Quantum 
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pittsburgh Public
  • Royal Family, Pittsburgh Public 
  • Scapin, Baltimore Shakespeare (Thesis role) 
  • Comedy of Errors, Baltimore Shakespeare
  • Midnight Radio, Bricolage

Teaching

  • Stage Combat
  • Junior Acting (Shakespeare)

Director

  • It's a Wonderful Life, Cape May Stage, NJ

Asst. Director

  • History Boys,  Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Off-Broadway

 

 

Rose Rage

U/S York, Richard, Ens.

Duke Theater-42nd Street Studio, NY
Dir. Edward Hall

Regional

 

 

Assassins 

Guiteau

Apple Tree Theater, Chicago 

Kismet

Wazier 

Marriott Lincolnshire Theater, Chicago

The Goodbye Girl 

Elliot Garfield

Marriott Lincolnshire Theater, Chicago

GREEK 

Dad 

Transient Theater, Chicago

The Royal Family 

Jo

Pittsburgh Public Theater 

Scapin 

Scapin 

Baltimore Shakespeare Festival

Mouth to Mouth

Dr. Gompertz

Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh

Pride and Prejudice

Mr. Collins

Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre (PICT)

Salome  

Ozias 

Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre 

Moonlight and Magnolias

Fleming 

Cape May Stage, NJ

The Woman in Black 

The Actor

Cape May Stage, NJ

Around the World in 80 Days

Passpartout

Cape May Stage, NJ 

Chekhov in Yalta

Chekhov 

Seanachai Theater, Chicago 

Playboy of the Western World 

Christy   

New World Theater, Chicago

The Big FINish 

Author/Performer 

Second City, ETC., Chicago

The Tall and The Short of IT

Author/Performer

Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Winter’s Tale

Autolycus 

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) 

Comedy of Errors

Dromio of Ephesus

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

King Lear

Fool

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Merry Wives of Windsor

Dr. Caius

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

King John

Lewis

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Taming of the Shrew

Tranio

Nebraska Shakespeare Festival 

As You Like It

Touchstone 

Nebraska Shakespeare Festival 

Henry IV, pt.1

Hal

Nebraska Shakespeare Festival

MacBeth

Banquo

Nebraska Shakespeare Festival

Romeo and Juliet

Tybalt

Nebraska Shakespeare Festival

Much Ado About Nothing

Don Pedro

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival

MacBeth

MacDuff

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival

Tempest               

Antonio

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival 

Awards

Joseph Jefferson Award

Best Supporting Actor – Assassins

Joseph Jefferson Award

Best Supporting Actor – Kismet

Joseph Jefferson Citation

Best Actor – GREEK

Joseph Jefferson-Nomination

Best Actor – The Goodbye Girl

OE Award – Nomination

Best Actor – Taming of the Shrew

After Dark™ Award

Author, Best New Work - ...Two For The Show,…

Skills

Dialects: Australian, Scots, Irish, British
Blues Harmonica, Ukelele: Physical Comedy, Sketch writing:  Rapier/Dagger, Sword/Buckler, Longsword
Film and Commercial Resume Available Upon Request