BIOGRAPHY
James T. Alfred
Current: A.R.T.: Friar John/Sampson in Romeo and Juliet. Graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University (2006). Institute credits: The Bacchae, Demons, and Neil Lebute's This is How it Goes. Other: To Kill a Mockingbird with Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company; world premiere of Red Shirts by Dana Yeaton with director Lou Bellamy, founder and artistic director of the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, MN, and the Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, MD; Young Blood in August Wilson's Jitney at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company; Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things, Chicago Theatre Co.; Killing Me Softly (Black Theater Alliance Award nomination — Best Actor) and Conversations on a Dirt Road, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago; and SOST, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago. Writer, producer, and performer of DaDa, a one-person play, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago. Films: One Week (Audience Award — American Black Film Festival) and No Coincidence (Best Short Film — New York Urban World Film Festival). Television: Fox's Prison Break. Upcoming: Cory in August Wilson's Fences at Penumbra and Tenessee Williams' Glass Menagerie at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.