He directed Anne Undeland’s play, Lady Randy, for WAM Theatre; Romance at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; Private Life at HERE Arts in NY; and An Evening of Shorts by Mamet, Pinter and Silverstein at the ART/Harvard Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Jim’s play, Flight of the Monarch, premiered at Gloucester Stage Company in 2017 an. will be produced at Shakespeare & Company this summer. His play, Breakwater, the second in a trilogy of Cape Cod plays, received its premiere in 2019 as part of Great Barrington Public’s inaugural season (Berkshire Theatre Critic’s Nomination). Jim has acted On and Off-Broadway, in National Tours; in many plays with the Atlantic Theater Company, with David Mamet and at regional theaters such as: The Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, The Alley Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Humana Festival of New Plays—most recently in Prairie Du Chien at Atlantic and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Shakespeare & Company. Films: Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Suits, Claire Dolan and Maryam. Jim is an award-winning audiobook narrator performing over 400 titles.

With a commitment to raising consciousness around the power of the arts as activism, Judy collaborates with Andre de Quadros in the BU College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project, teaching incarcerated students in Massachusetts’ prisons and jails. They also work together within the BU community, teaching the socially conscious Collaborative Arts Incubator and the groundbreaking series Race, Prison, Justice, Arts.  

As a director, Judy’s work often has concern for human rights at its center: Golda’s Balcony (NEW REP), To Kill A Mockingbird  (GSC), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (CST), Othello, I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (ASP), Deported, a dream play (BPT), Our Class, Our Country’s Good and The Exonerated at BU/SOT and the new work Mr. Fullerton by Anne Undeland (GBPT). Currently, a new solo work about the feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It by Joyce Van Dyke. A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Judy is also proud to have been a founding board member of Stage Source, New England Theater’s service organization committed to connecting theaters, artists and their communities. 

She has numerous Off-Broadway and regional credits including Eva Ruby in Camelot's Ruby at Bank Street Theatre; Sandy in Paper Tigers at the Arc Light Theatre; Gwen Landis in Fifth of July and Viazaphuhrika in Strider, both opposite Tony Award winner Joe Mantello at the Roger L. Stevens Centre; Mom/Margaret in Love and Happiness and multiple characters in The Laramie Project at Barrington Stage Company; Karen/Muriel/Norma in Plaza Suite, Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst and Vera in Mame all at TriArts' Sharon Playhouse; The Amish Project, Talking With, Sylvia, Galatea, Dear Liar and various other productions with the Aglet Theatre Company.  Deann has produced several New York and Regional productions including the OBIE nominated Incommunicado and The Vagina Monologues. She has served on the Boards of Directors for Circle Rep, New York Stage and Film, TriArts' Sharon Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Playwrights Lab; and is currently on the Board of Directors for Space on Ryder Farm and Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she received her theatre training.

A few of his credits include: B’way – 42nd Street, Ten Unknowns, Chaucer in Rome and Invention of Love; Off-B’way – Three Hotels, Urinetown, Freud’s Last Session, Becoming Dr. Ruth and Force Continuum. Off-B'way clients include Atlantic Theatre, American Place Theatre, Jane St. Theatre, Lambs Theatre and Actor's Playhouse. PBS/Live from Lincoln Center – Hansel and Gretel produced by the Juilliard School and Live from the Kaplan Penthouse performances by Renee Fleming and Itzhak Perlman. Regional Theatres include Missouri Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, Creede Repertory Theatre and Theatre Three in Dallas. He also spent seven years on the production staff at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center. He is married to Berkshires actress Peggy Pharr Wilson.

She is excited to be working with GBPT for her third season and re-joining Tristan Wilson in the management office. She is a double graduate of Syracuse University with both her BFA in Stage Management and her MS in Digital Communications; specializing in PR from the Newhouse School. She is a regular fixture at Syracuse University Fisher Center NYC and still proudly bleeds orange!

A lifelong resident of the Berkshires and Manhattan, he has worked with a diverse list of major corporations, established businesses, start-up enterprises and cultural organizations, including Young & Rubicam, Inc.; IBM; AT&T; Pfizer; Johnson & Johnson; Shakespeare & Company; The Anne Frank Center USA and many others.

Eucatastrophe won the 2009 Kaplan Prize for New Plays and In Between Without You received staged readings from Berkshire Voices (2017) and North Shore Readers Theater (2018). His short play A Layover was included in the first Radius Playwrights Festival and was subsequently recorded as A Departure for the podcast Playing On Air featuring the actors Len Cariou and Michael Urie. He writes grants for many social service and cultural organizations in the Berkshires, Cape Cod and New York City.

Anne’s work has been presented around the country with her short, The Kiss winning best play at the Ten Minute Play Festival at the West Side Y, her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review. Wharton Between the Sheet, garnered four Berkshire Theater Critics award nominations, including outstanding new play). It was produced by Boston’s Gloucester Stage in 2022, and had a reading at NYC’s Salmagundi Club in 2023. She’s currently at work on a one-woman show, Mozart’s Wife, the Lacrymosa. https://www.anneundeland.com/

In March 2018, The Athena Project workshopped The Golden Hour as part of its annual “Plays in Progress Series” in Denver, CO. Fugue (published under Laura Elizabeth Miller by Black Box Press) is regularly produced worldwide, and The Going Price (Steele Stage Rights) was selected in 2011 as part of Red Bull Theater’s inaugural Short New Play Festival. Stage directing credits include The Chess Lesson by Sari Caine, world premiere of Spark by Angela Santillo, Rumors, Tallgrass Gothic, Arsenic and Old Lace, Pillow Talk, and Emily. A graduate of Texas Wesleyan University and Sarah Lawrence College, Elizabeth was the original art director and managing editor for SDC Journal, a craft magazine published by Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) in NYC. She lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts with her husband, two cats, and a Puggle named Harper Lee.
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As a producer, Michael created TheatreFest, a celebration of new works for the theatre, produced in 2019 at Saint James Place. Great Barrington. His play Pipeline  was featured in Barrington Stage Company’s 2019 10x10 New Play Festival in Pittsfield. Michael has also served as a playwright mentor with Barrington Stage, helping local students find their own voices. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.  He has had staged readings of two new plays under auspices of The Berkshire Playwrights Lab: The Season and Green Tiger Seven.  He also directed in the lab’s first two Radius Festivals. In 2021, Great Barrington Public Theater presented a staged reading of Michael’s newest play, Queen of The Sea.

In addition to his work in theatre, he served for several years as the Program Officer for Artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, overseeing a grant giving program for literary, visual and performance artists.  Michael lives in Southfield, Massachusetts with his wife, Patricia Jacobsen-Brady. His plays are available from Broadway Play Publishing.