Resume

ANN C. JAMES

Altruistic director/producer with a strong consultancy background within corporate environments. Specializing in intimacy consultation and advocacy, group dynamics, curriculum development and motivational communication in professional educational, entertainment and business models.

RECENT BROADWAY CREDITS INTIMACY COORDINATOR

Parade

Sweeney Todd

Hamilton USA, Australia and United Kingdom

Pass Over

RECENT OFF-BROADWAY /REGIONAL CREDITS INTIMACY COORDINATOR/ SENSITIVITY SPECIALIST/ CONSULTANT

Shadow/land– The Public Theater

How to Defend Yourself- New York Theater Workshop

White Girl In Danger– 2nd Stage

The Outsiders-LaJolla Playhouse

Lempicka- LaJolla Playhouse

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing- Signature Theater NYC

My Broken Language- Signature Theater NYC

Romeo and Juliet- The Acting Company

The Three Musketeers- The Acting Company

From the Mississippi Delta- Westport Playhouse

Here There Are Blueberries- Tectonic Theater Project

The Aftermath- Lucille Lortel Theatre/Howard University, NYC

Seize the King- Harlem Classical Theatre, NYC

Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 Signature Theatre, NYC

Confederates- Signature Theatre, NYC

Yemandja- MassMOCA, Kennedy Centre, World Tour

NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOPS SENSITIVITY/ INTIMACY SPECIALIST

Potluck- Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center

Cats/Ballroom- Bill Rauch/Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center

Black Swan- Rachel Chavkin

FILM INTIMACY COORDINATOR

Black Vietnam: Into the Light- WINNER- Indie Film Award-Next Generation (Director)

Pool Boy-BAFTA Short Film award

Northern Shade- Independent FeaturE

Stu-Feature- Producer/Principal Actor, Mark Wahlberg

TELEVISION INTIMACY COORDINATOR/ DIRECTOR

The Shrink Next Door- Apple TV+ Principals Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd (8 episodes)

ROAR- Apple TV+ Principals Cynthis Enrivo and Issa Rae– (3 Episodes)

Directing:

Nina Simone: Four Women-Director, San Antonio Public Theater

SHANGHAI, PRC. DIRECTING/ PRODUCING CREDITS {Abridged} DreamWeaver-Shanghai, China (2018-2012) These productions were produced in high-profile locations in and throughout the city of Shanghai. DreamWeaver Productions (originally Urban Aphrodite) was China’s first theater company registered by a resident expat. In all there were 52 full productions in 5 years. 

Titanic, The Ship of Dreams- Immersive Experience 

3 by Tenn Shanghai Gay Pride 

Hay Fever 

Thom Pain 

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Glengarry Glen Ross 

Reservoir Dogs 

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 

Doubt 

The New Electric Ballroom 

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High 

5 Course Love 

Little Shop of Horrors

Hamlet

Godspell

God of Carnage

The Last Five Years

Psycho Beach Party

Fight Club

The Fugees Tribute Concert

Abba Tribute Concert

The Three Cinderellas

The Little Prince (Toured at The Edinburgh Festival 2014)

Pygmalion

Dancing at Lughnasa

12 Dates of Christmas

Santaland Diaries

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

The Princess Bride

39 Steps

Rosemary’s Baby

DreamBoyz-Shanghai’s All Male Exotic Revue

Venus in Fur

USA REGIONAL THEATRE DIRECTOR (2004-2012)

Pillow Talk- Comedy Theater Nes, (Amsterdam)

The Bourgeois Gentleman- Khartoum International Community School (Sudan) 

The Cherry Orchard (KICS, Sudan)

Camino Real (KICS, Sudan)

Esther, Queen of Persia-(Opera) Celestial Productions, Manhattan Theatre Source 

Mail- Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Hartford Stage (Asst. to Michael Wilson) 

Balm In Gilead- Barnevelder Artspace BP Players (Houston) 

Dreamgirls- The Great Caruso (Houston) 

Proof- The Goodman Theatre (Asst. to Chuck Smith) 

Top Dog/Underdog- Associate Director Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, Steppenwolf, The Alley Theatre 

Medea- Symposium Tour (Sam Houston State University)

Medea- Theater LaB (Houston)

Kingdom of Earth- Theatre LaB (Houston) 

Wonka!- Stages Repertory Summer Theatre Symposium (Houston) 

Comedy of Errors- Jones High School Players (Houston) 

Hamlet- Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston) 

Unmerciful Good Fortune- Unhinged Theatre (Houston) 

Food, Sex and Longing- Theatre LaB Women’s Playwrights Festival (Houston) 

Animal Farm- Main Street Young Theatre Program (Houston) 

The Quadroon Ball- Main Street Theatre (Houston)