1980 (age 43–44)[1] Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation
Playwright, Actor
Education
Morehouse College (BA) Temple University (MFA)
Notable awards
Whiting Award[2] F. Otto Haas Award[3]
James Ijames (/aɪmz/)[4] is an American playwright, actor, and professor originally from Bessemer City, North Carolina. He received his B.A. in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and earned his MFA in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is now based. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University[5] and co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.[6] Ijames is a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia's first playwright producing collective.[7] His adaptation of Hamlet, titled Fat Ham, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022. The production ran at The Public Theater during the summer of 2022,[8] before opening on Broadway in April 2023. He is the recipient of the 2018 Whiting Award for drama and the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.
^"James Ijames on Winning a Pulitzer and Making 'Hamlet' a Comedy". The New York Times. May 9, 2022. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
^"2017 Whiting Award Winner Profile: James Ijames". Whiting.org. Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
^"F. Otto Haas Winners All Years".
^Fox, David (October 21, 2017). "James Ijames: Breakout Bard". Philadelphia. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
^"WELCOME". Jamesijames.com. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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