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Jim Asade Biography (1936-)

Born James W. Assad, September 12, 1936, in Denbo, PA; son of Rene (Seghi) Assad. Addresses: HOME--5406 Harrison Street, Kansas City, MO 64110; 165Christopher Street, Apt. 31, New York, NY 10014.

Asade told CTFT, "My ultimate joy would be to see the establishment of a fully subsidized American national theatre company."

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Birth Details

September 12, 1936

Denbo, Pennsylvania, United States

Famous Works

• Credits
• STAGE DEBUT--Rumplestiltskin, Rumplestiltskin, Brownsville Community Theatre, Brownsville, PA, for five performances.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• Hamlet, Hamlet, Missouri Repertory Theater, Kansas City, MO.
• Enrico, Enrico IV, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Jimmy Porter, Look Back in Anger, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Orgon, Tartuffe, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Fool, King Lear, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Becket, Becket, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Feste, Twelfth Night, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Tom, The Glass Menagerie, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Sakini, Teahouse of the August Moon, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Lachie, The Hasty Heart, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Morgon, The Corn Is Green, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Toby, The Medium, Missouri Repertory Theater.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; DIRECTOR
• The Cherry Orchard, Ah! Wilderness, both at Pennsylvania State UniversityResident Theater Company.
• with the Missouri Repertory Company, Kansas City, MO: Wings, The Shadow Box, Much Ado About Nothing, Old Times, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, all 1976, The Rainmaker, All My Sons, The Glass Menagerie, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hamlet, all 1980, Catsplay, Nicholas Nickleby, both 1983.
• Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, A Day in the Death ofJoe Egg, Dylan, all at The Theatre.
• Enrico IV, Storybook Tales, both with Actors Prologue Company.
• Romeo and Juliet, Penn State Arts Company.
• The Medium, Die Kluge, both with Lyric Opera Company.
• Hansel and Gretel, Kansas City Philharmonic.
• Crimes of the Heart, Madison Repertory, Madison, WI, 1985.
• Credits; MAJOR TOURS
• Director, company manager, midwestern cities, 1974-76.
• FILM DEBUT--Floyd Wells, In Cold Blood, Columbia, 1968.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES
• Hamlet, Hamlet, Calvin Productions.
• performer number one, Arts in Kansas City, Centron Productions.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION WORK
• Director, Watermelon Boats, PBS affiliate, Kansas City, MO.