Directing

As a director, Jim has developed new and devised works for the stage, as well as directed established plays and musicals in an educational setting. Click the links for additional pictures and information about these selected projects.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Wiliam Shakespeare
adapted by Bridget E. DeVivo
W.R. Satz Middle School
May 17-18, 2022

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Holmdel High School
March 24-26, 2022

Rock of Ages: Youth Edition
W.R. Satz Middle School
January 20-21, 2022

Disney's The Little Mermaid
music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
book by Doug Wright
based on the Hans Christian Andersen story
and the Disney film produced by Howard Ashman & John Musker
and written & directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Holmdel High School
streaming online April 22-24, 2021
 music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by James Lapine
originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Holmdel High School
March 2020







adapted by Marisha Chamberlain
Lacey Township High School
November 2018




by Peter Bloedel
Lacey Towship High School
December 2017
by Carol Korty
New Plays for Young Audiences @ NYU
June 2013


student playwrights, professional actors
Writers Theatre of New Jersey
2005-2017


The Greenwich Village Project
an original, collaborative devised play
Provincetown Playhouse
February 2001


Lucky Peter's Journey
by August Strindberg, adapted by Lowell Swortzell
Provincetown Playhouse
February 2000

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