JAMES IJAMES is a Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award nominated playwright, a director and educator.
James’ plays have been produced by Flashpoint Theater Company, Orbiter 3, Theatre Horizon, Wilma Theatre, Theatre Exile, Azuka Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), The National Black Theatre, JACK, The Public Theater (NYC), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Definition Theatre, Timeline Theater (Chicago IL) Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) and have received development with PlayPenn New Play Conference, The Lark, Playwright's Horizon, Clubbed Thumb, Villanova Theater, Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre and Victory Garden.
James is the 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist recipient, and two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Direction of a Play for The Brothers Size with Simpatico Theatre Company and Gem of the Ocean with Arden Theatre. James is a 2015 Pew Fellow for Playwriting, the 2015 winner of the Terrance McNally New Play Award for WHITE, the 2015 Kesselring Honorable Mention Prize winner for ....Miz Martha, a 2017 recipient of the Whiting Award, a 2019 Kesselring Prize for Kill Move Paradise, a 2020 and 2022 Steinberg Prize, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama recipient and a 2023 Tony nominee for Best Play for Fat Ham
James was a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first playwright producing collective.
He received a B.A. in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and a M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. James an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University. He resides in South Philadelphia.
James Ijames, Fat Ham
James Ijames, Fat Ham
James Ijames, Fat Ham
James Ijames, Fat Ham
James IjamesAngels in America part one: Millennium Approaches
James Ijames has been nominated for several awards including Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Fat Ham," the John Gassner Award for New American Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Fat Ham," a Special Citation at the Obie Awards for "Fat Ham," the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Fat Ham," and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play at The Barrymore Awards for "Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches."
James Ijames has won the John Gassner Award for New American Play from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Fat Ham, a Special Citation from the Obie Awards for Fat Ham, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Fat Ham, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play from The Barrymore Awards for Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches.
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