James Warwick

JAMES WARWICK

jameswarwick01@yahoo.com



James Warwick spent his early years in UK regional theater after graduating from The Royal Central School in London. He later played leading roles in many productions in the West End and on national tour. The Rivals, the title role in Dr. Faustus, On the Spot, The Family Dance, Henry in The Real Thing etc. Several TV series followed: Lillie, The Nightmare Man, Dr. Who, The Bell, The Terracotta Horse and Tommy Beresford in the award-winning TV series Partners in Crime for BBC/PBS Masterpiece Theatre.

James has had a fulfilling career as both actor and director in the US for the last 20 years; on Broadway, (Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband), and on national tour playing King Arthur in Camelot. Guest TV roles include Murder She Wrote, Babylon 5, Civil Wars etc. In 2018, he directed Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally for Shakespeare and Company, for which he was awarded Outstanding Director of the year from Berkshire Theatre Critics Assn. James also narrates audiobooks, most recently The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, for which he received an Audiophile Magazine award. He returned to S&C to direct The Children by Lucy Kirkwood and Ionesco’s The Chairs. In 2022, Alison Larkin’s Grief the Musical for Great Barrington Public Theatre, and Lee Blessing’s A Walk in the Woods for S&C awarded the top theatre production in the 2022 Review for New England Newspapers. James’ recent production of Native Gardens had a successful run at the Majestic Theatre in West Springfield.