James Wallis

Shakespeare 3

James is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare BASH’d. For Shakespeare BASH’d: as an actor - Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (2012, 2015), Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (2013), Hamlet in Hamlet (2016), and Richard III in Richard III (2018); as a director -  A Midsummer Night’s Dream - a staged reading (2011), Romeo and Juliet (2012), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2014), Macbeth (2014), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2015 Co-Director), Edward II - a staged reading (2015) King John (2015), The Changeling - a staged reading (2016), Twelfth Night (2017), Volpone – a staged reading (2017), and Othello (2019)

James other credits as a director include: reasons to be pretty (The Labute Cycle), As You Like It (Theatre by the Bay), Shakespeare in Hospitals (Spur of the Moment), Titus Andronicus (Hart House Theatre), Antony & Cleopatra (Secret Shakespeare Project), Scenes from The Tempest (Playing for Free – Ryerson University), Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Theatre Erindale), and Pygmalion (Ryerson Theatre School)

James was part of Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival in 2016/2017. He was the assistant director on Macbeth, the world premiere of Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch, and Romeo and Juliet. Also with Stratford, James was assistant director of Julius Caesar (2018) and as an assistant director of The Winter’s Tale as part of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Acting (2018).

In 2020, James will co-facilitate the Word Play series at the Stratford Festival with his wife and partner Julia.