Player King:
Hamlet

Benedick:
Much Ado About Nothing

James Crawford

James Crawford has acted in theatres across the country. In 2007, James was named Best Actor by D Magazine, the Dallas Observer and the Dallas Voice. For his performances as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Water Tower Theatre) and as C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas), he also received the Leon Rabin Award and a Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum Award. Since moving to Dallas ten years ago, James has appeared in a dozen productions at the Dallas Theater Center, including Pride & Prejudice, Joe Egg, The Real Thing, Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Night of the Iguana, A Christmas Carol, and the American premiere of Inexpressible Island. In addition, James has performed at Theatre Three (Stones in his Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, As Bees in Honey Drown), Stage West (Angels in America, Man of the Moment), Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, The Tempest), the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas (Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor), Water Tower Theatre (Holiday Memories), Echo Theatre (Cloud Nine, Off the Map) and Theatre Britain (Betrayal).

James has worked with such nationally acclaimed directors as Des McAnuff, Tina Landau, Stan Wojewodski, and Robert Woodruff. He appeared Off-Broadway in En Garde Arts’ Obie-winning production of The Trojan Women, A Love Story, in The Great Brain at the Promenade Theatre, and in The Kafka Project at the Ohio Theatre. He has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theatreworks/USA and Circle Rep Lab. He has acted at such regional theatres as the La Jolla Playhouse (Elmer Gantry, and the premiere of Lee Blessing’s Fortinbras), and North Carolina’s Triad Stage (Art, Picnic, and A Streetcar Named Desire).

James is a member of Actors’ Equity and AFTRA, and has appeared on television in All My Children, As the World Turns and One Life to Live. A graduate of Brown University, he received his M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego. James has previously taught at Muhlenberg College and the University of North Texas. James currently teaches acting in the Division of Theatre at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU, where he has directed productions of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, and Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.