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Jim has designed sound for a variety of professional and university theaters, including:
• 2004–2022
Cleveland Play House, Cleveland OH
Designed over 50 productions. Please click here for highlights.
• 2012
Oberlin College Theater and Dance, Oberlin, OH Please click here for details.
• 2009
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Please click here for details.
• 2002-2003
Hildebrandt International/AstraZenica, Wilmington, DE Please click here for details.
• 1994–2000
Pioneer Theater Company, Salt Lake City, UT
Designed 42 productions. Please click here for highlights.
• 1992–1994
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ
Designed 14 productions. Please click here for highlights.
• 1989–1990
Center Stage, Baltimore, MD
Designed 6 productions. Please click here for highlights.
• 1988–1991
Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT
designed productions for various student and professional stages. Please click here for highlights.
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Cleveland Play House, Cleveland OH
Designed over 50 productions. Highlights include:
• 2020
Electra and Orestes by Euripides, translated by Ian Johnston/assembled and directed by Desdemona Chiang
• 2018
5th of July by Lanford Wilson/directed by Donald Carrier
• 2016
The Good Peaches by Quiara Alegria Hudes/directed by Laura Kepley
• 2015
The Philadelphia Story by Phillip Barry/directed by Jerrold Scott
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekov/directed by Ron Wilson
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang/directed by Bruce Jordan
• 2014
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare/directed by Guy Stroman
Too True To Be Good by G. B. Shaw/directed by Donald Carrier
Venus in Fur by David Ives/directed by Laura Kepley
• 2013
A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian/directed by John McCluggage (used every year in revivals through 2019)
Breath and Imagination by Daniel Beaty/directed by May Adrales
The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez/directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Lombardi by David Maraniss and Eric Simonson/directed by Casey Stangl
• 2012
Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire/directed by Laura Kepley
The Devil’s Music by Angelo Parra/directed by Joe Brancato
Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten/directed by Michael Bloom
• 2011
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor by Tom Stoppard/directed by Michael Bloom
Radio Golf by August Wilson/directed by Lou Bellamy
Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig/directed by Aaron Posner
• 2010
An Orchard (an adaptation of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard) written (with the Cleveland Play House-Case Western Reserve University graduate ensemble) and directed by Mark Allen Gordon
Legacy of Light by Karen Zacarias/directed by Bart DeLorenzo
Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote/directed by Timothy Douglas (remounted in 2013 at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
• 2009
Bill W. and Dr. Bob by Janet Surrey and Stephen Bergman/directed by Set Gordon
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry/directed by Lou Bellamy
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee/directed by Seth Gordon
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon/directed by Michael Bloom
• 2008
Heaven’s My Destination by Thornton Wilder/adapted and directed by Michael Bloom
Crime and Punishment adapted by Curt Colombus/directed by Anders Cato
Around the World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown/directed by Bart DeLorenzo
Noises Off by Michael Frayn/directed by David H. Bell
• 2007
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck/directed by Seth Gordon at CPH (co-produced with Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo, NY)
Cuttin’ Up by Charles Randolph-Wright/directed by Israel Hicks (co-produced with Pasedena Playhouse)
Playhouse
• 2006
Clean House by Sarah Ruhl/directed by Davis McCallum
Rabbit Hole by David Linsay-Abaire/directed by Michael Bloom
Dream a Little Dream by Denny Doherty and Paul Ledoux/directed by Denny Doherty
• 2005
A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian/directed by Seth Gordon (used every year in revivals through 2010)
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright/directed by Anders Cato
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher/directed by Seth Gordon
Room Service by Allen Boretz and John Murray/directed by Jeff Steitzer
• 2004
Crowns by Regina Taylor/directed by Diane McIntyre
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Oberlin College Theater and Dance, Oberlin, OH
• 2012
why i had to dance by Ntozaké Shangé/choreographed and directed by Dianne McIntyre
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Hildebrandt International/AstraZenica, Wilmington, DE
• 2002-2003
The Tragic Demise of the Whaleship Essex written and directed by Timothy J. Ray
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Pioneer Theater Company, Salt Lake City, UT
Designed 42 productions. Highlights include:
• 2000
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard/directed by Charles Morey
As You Like It by William Shakespeare/directed by Paul Barnes
• 1998
The Count of Monte Cristo adapted and directed by Charles Morey
• 1997
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard/directed by Charles Morey
• 1996
The Pirated Penzance written and directed by James Christian
Piano Lesson by August Wilson/directed by Debra Wicks
• 1995
Noises Off by Michael Frayn/directed by Charles Morey
• 1994
A Tale of Two Cities adapted and directed by Charles Morey
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George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ
Designed 14 productions, including:
• 1994
Swinging on a Star: A Musical Celebration of Johnny Burke directed by Michael Leeds
Tangents by Elizabeth Hansen/directed by Allyson Reed
• 1993
Idioglossia by Mark Handley/directed by Tom O'Horgan
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Center Stage, Baltimore, MD
Designed 6 productions. Highlights include:
• 1990
Beckett: Short Works by Samuel Beckett/directed by Jackson Phippin and Cheryl Faver
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (adapted by Leon Katz)/directed by Lawrence Kornfeld
• 1989
The Film Society by Jon Robin Baitz/directed by Jackson Phippin
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Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT
designed productions for various student and professional stages, highlights include:
• 1991
Scapin by Moliere/adapted and directed by Andre Belgrader at the Yale Rep
• 1990
Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang/directed by Timothy J. Ray at Yale Cabaret
• 1989
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson/directed by John Hirsch at the Yale Rep
King John by William Shakespeare/directed by David Chambers for the YSD Mainstage
As You Like It by William Shakespeare/directed by Virginia Ness for the YSD Mainstage
• 1988
The Tempest by William Shakespeare/directed by David Chambers at the Yale Rep
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