Artist Profile
James recently directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Chance Theater (Orange Curtain Review Award for Best Musical). Other Chance directing credits include American Idiot (Winner of 6 Orange County Theater Guild Awards including Outstanding Direction of a Musical), Edges, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Wrinkle In Time, and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. He has been commissioned to write and direct a number of storytelling concerts for Pacific Symphony, creating an original story and book to accompany a repertoire of music for their Family Series and Education Series. These productions include Beethoven: Trials to Triumph, A Dream of Tchaikovsky, Intergalactic Adventures, Music from the Movies and More, and The Curious Case of the Vanishing Violin, all presented at Segerstrom Concert Hall. Other directing credits include the World Premiere of Comedy of ERROR at American Coast Theater Company and Two Rooms at California State University Long Beach. James is proud to be a Resident Artist and the Literary Manager at Chance Theater. www.jamesmichaelmchale.com