JAMES WALLERT, Associate Artistic Director
As an actor with Epic, James has appeared in eight Off-Broadway productions including MAHIDA’S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN, A HARD HEART, WIDOWERS’ HOUSES, EINSTEIN’S GIFT, HANNAH AND MARTIN, HABITAT, LITTLE EYOLF, TIME & THE CONWAYS, and ten workshops including the musicals POP'd and SAVE EL CID, which he wrote. As an actor and mentor with Shakespeare Remix, he has worked on MACBETH, A WINTER’S TALE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and ROMEO AND JULIET. Other theatre credits include OTHELLO, ROMEO AND JULIET, and ALL IN THE TIMING at the Old Globe Theatre, PRIDE’S CROSSING and THREE DAYS OF RAIN at Northern Stage, TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE at HERE Arts Center, SPARROWS at Circle Theatre, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Kansas Shakespeare Festival and KING LEAR at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. TV and Film credits include FOX Television's Time of Your Life, Just the Beat, and Tumbling After. Since Co-Founding Epic Theatre Ensemble in 2001, James has curated and administered Epic's Forum Series (funded by the New York Council for the Humanities), serving over 15,000 audience members. He is currently the lead teaching artist and site manager at Chelsea Vocational High School, where he oversees Epic's sequential learning program. MFA- Acting, Old Globe/University of San Diego; BA- Theatre, University of Kansas.