Jim Cairl

Managing Director

Jim has been teaching for over ten years, including a year long acting course at PS 176 in Manhattan and an intensive stage combat course for students in London. He worked with students at Haldane Central School in Cold Spring, New York on Classical French Theater and wrote and directed plays for students in Goldens Bridge, NY. In New York, Jim has worked with Students Live, performing on Broadway at the Shubert Theater. He has also worked with Tom Waites as a stage combat choreographer for the Thomas G. Waites Acting School. Jim was also the Associate Artistic Director of the Ironwood Theater Project in Chicago, IL. As the AAD he was responsible for casting the season members and aided in selecting the shows. Jim has worked with the Off and Off-Off Broadway community for several years as a performer, stage combat choreographer, stage manager, and playwright. He has worked with Inverse Theater, Myriad Arts, The Kiva Company, Big Break Productions, and Theater et al to name a few. Recently, Jim completed the independent feature film “Homecoming”, performing opposite Josh Hamilton. Jim graduated with a degree in Theater from Bennington College in Bennington, VT and also graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He has studied at BADA in London with Fiona Shaw, Mick Barnfather, Janet Suzman, Mike Loades, and Mark Wing Davey. In July of 2006 he worked with faculty from the Moscow Art Theater for their summer program at Harvard University.