JIM WILLIAMS
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 604 5th Street                                              6 feet; 160 lbs.
Brooklyn, NY 11215                                       blue eyes; greying hair
Cell:718-873-3060                                         Service:212-854-8585

Currently working on the Role of Tom in Peking Roulette to be presented this summer as part of the International Theater Festival.

Last appeared as George in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf at the Nia Studio

Acting Experience

New York City:

            Hamlet (w/Austen Pendleton as Claudius)       Gravedigger/Fortinbras             Frog and Peach Theater

            The Brothers Karamazov, Part I                     Father Paisi, Grigory                 Culture Project, 45 Bleecker

            Buried Child                                                 Dodge                                     Access Theater and Iona College

            Richard III                                                    Buckingham                              Spoon Theater(click here for pics/reviews)

           Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf                         George                                    Nia Studio

            Ordinary People                                            Cal                                         Pelican Theater

            Death and Whipped Cream                            Death, Old Man                        Midtown International Theater Festival, 2004

            In Pertpetuity Throughout the University        Ampersand Qwerty/Dr. Rang      Pantheon Theater

            To Kill a Mockingbird                                     Bob Ewel                                American Theater of Actors  

            Tower of Babble   (click to view *.mov file)   Lucifer                                    Bank Street Theater

            Act Without Words                                       B                                              International Midtown Theater Festival

            Dante Project: Inferno                                  Brunetto Latini & Chorus            Synchronicity Space

            Act Without Words                                       B                                              Expanded Arts

  All Sides                                                      Jim (lead)                                 Harold Clurman Theater

 My Side of the Story                                       Gil                                            78th Street Theater Lab

            An Unsocial Socialist                                    Sydney Trefusis (lead)                  Provincetown Playhouse

            Happy Hour                                                 3 character Roles                        Provincetown Playhouse

            Swimming                                                         The Man (lead)                         P.S. 122

            A Doll’s House                                                 Torvald Helmer (lead)               Gallery Players

            John Brown’s Body                                          Actor A (lead)                          Gallery Players

            And Things That Go Bump In the Night             Sigfrid  (lead)                           Gallery Players

            Space Gypsies                                                  Karma (lead)                            American Modern Dance Theatre

            Death of a Salesman                                         Uncle Ben                                Classic Stage Productions

            Macbeth                                                           Ross                                         Classic Stage Productions

            The Big Knife                                                   Hank Teagle                             Classic Stage Productions

            It’s Never Too Late                                          Mayor                                      Billie Holiday Theatre

            Day of Absence                                                Announcer                                Billie Holiday Theatre

 Regional and Stock

            The Common Glory      (w/Glenn Close)           Thomas Jefferson (lead role)     Williamsburg, VA

            As You Like It (Glenn Close as Rosaline)            Sylvius                                      Williamsburg, VA

            The Devil’s Tatoo                                             A demon (dance/mime role)      Williamsburg, VA

            Vermon Lives                                                   Ethan Allen (lead role)              Dorset Theater, Dorset Vermont
 Film:

            Cow-B-Boy(click to view clip), George (Featured Role, Outsider Productions), Fast Food, Fast Woman (Amos Kollek), CeciliaLeading Role, Director:Till Osterland

            Death of a Man(Lead Role, Columbia University Student Film); A Life Alone(Supporting Role,Columbia University Student Film);              

          

Training

Acting:  American Academy of Dramatic Arts

               H.B. Studio

               Raphael Kelly's Shakespeare Studio

               June Stein, Roger Hendricks Simon, Marjorie Ballentine, James R. Kirkland, III

 Fencing & Stage Comabat: Gaza Gazdag

 Mime:    Claude Kipnis

 Movement and Dance: Ballet: Don Farnworth, Rosemarie Gardella ; Modern: Myra Kinch, George Stevenson ;

Jazz: Mo Freeman (Luigi Technique); African: Arthur Hall, Charles Moore; Nia: Caroline Kohles,

Debbie and Carlos Rosas; Sweat Your Prayers and the Wave: Gabrielle Roth, Mary Ann Woods

 Education: BA w/ Honors University of Delaware; MFA Performing Arts Administration Brooklyn College

 Special Skills: Djembe Drum, Nia Instructor, Yoga Instructor, Driver’s License with car, United States Marine Corps Viet-Nam Era Veteran

                                                             
This page was last update: 05/08/2010