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James Youmans Biography ((?)-)

Addresses: Agent: Mark Taper Forum, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles,CA 90036-4504.

Gender

Male

Occupation

Set designer, art director

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Set Designer
• Emerald City, New York Theatre Workshop, Perry Street Theatre, NewYork City, 1988
• Billy Bishop Goes to War, Long Island Stage, Rockville Centre, NY,1988-89
• The Soda Jerk, HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, 1989
• Lucy's Lapses, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Gus and Al, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1989
• Wolf Man, Manhattan Theatre Club/Stage II, New York City, 1989
• Triplets in Uniform, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1989
• A Mom's Life, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Shiva Theatre,New York City, 1990
• The Colorado Catechism, Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1990
• Jersey City, Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 1990
• The American Plan, Manhattan Theatre Club/Stage II, 1990
• Romance in Hard Times, New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, then Public/Newman Theatre, both New York City, 1991
• The Wash, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1991
• The Stick Wife, Manhattan Theatre Club/Stage II, 1991
• The American Plan, Manhattan Theatre Club/Stage II, 1991
• Sight Unseen, Manhattan Theatre Club/Stage II, 1991
• The Country Wife, Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, NY, 1991
• Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities,New York Shakespeare Festival, 1992
• Spike Heels, Second Stage Theatre, 1992
• Bella, Belle of Byelorussia, Works Progress Administration Theatre, New York City, 1992
• Henry IV, Part I, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, 1992
• The Swan, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1993
• Pterodactyls, Vineyard Theatre, 1993
• Jeffrey, Works Progress Administration Theatre, 1993
• Sight Unseen, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1993
• The Petrified Prince, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1994
• Raised in Captivity, Vineyard Theatre, 1994, then South Coast Rep
• Paddywhack, Long Wharf Theatre, 1994
• The Naked Truth, Works Progress Administration Theatre, 1994
• Captains Courageous, South Coast Repertory, 1995, then Goodspeed-at-Chester/The Norma Terris Theatre
• Raised in Captivity, South Coast Repertory, 1995
• Phaedra, Vineyard Theatre, 1995
• Swinging on a Star, Goodspeed Opera House, 1995
• Ann Meara's Play, Theater Four, then Manhattan Theatre Club/StageII, both 1995
• Faust, La Jolla Playhouse, 1995
• Swinging on a Star: The Johnny Burke Musical, Music Box Theater, 1995-96
• Zombie Prom, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City, 1996-
• And projection design, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Jane Street Theater, New York City, 1998-2000
• The Country Club, Greenwich House Theatre, New York City, 1999
• Stars in Your Eyes, Cherry Land, New York City, 1999
• Amy's View, South Coast Repertory Theatre, 2000
• Dorian, Goodspeed-at-Chester/The Norma Terris Theatre, Chester, CT, 2000
• Game Show, 45 Bleecker, New York City, 2000
• Also worked as set designer on The Shaughraun, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Huntington Theatre; The Country Club, Long Wharf Theatre; My Good Name, Bay Street Theatre Festival; Finian's Rainbow, Goodspeed Opera House; Paper Moon, Goodspeed and Ford's Theatre; Jolson Sings Again, George Street Playhouse; The Invisible Man, Cleveland Playhouse; Quills, ACT and Seattle; Digging Eleven, HartfordStage; Ah, Wilderness!, South Coast Repertory; Arcadia, SouthCoast Repertory; Sylvia, Seattle Repertory; Fit to Be Tied, Playwrights Horizons; All about the Timing, Long Wharf Theatre; The Waiting Room, Arena Stage; Barrio Babies, Denver Center Theatre; andDo I Hear a Waltz?, George Street Playhouse.
• Other Stage Work
• Scenery and projections, Tales of the Lost Formicans, The Woman'sProject, Apple Corps Theatre, New York City, 1990
• (With John Arnone) Associate designer, The Cave, Wiener Fest Wochen, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Reich Music Foundation, 1993
• Scenery and projections, Jeffrey, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, then Westwood Playhouse, Los Angeles, later Theater on the Square, San Francisco, all 1993
• Television Art Director
• Monsters (eight episodes), 1989-90
• "Words on Fire," Alive from Off Center (episodic), 1991
• "American Voices," Great Performances (episodic), PBS, 1993
• Also worked as art director for "Colon Blow," Saturday Night Live,NBC; The Bette Midler Special, HBO; and Rap Master Ronnie, HBO.
• Television Assistant Production Designer
• Episodic
• "Hyde in Hollywood," American Playhouse, PBS, 1990
• Also worked on "Women and Wallace," American Playhouse, PBS.
• Film Work
• Worked as art director, Penn and Teller Get Killed.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Theatre Crafts, January, 1991, pp. 46, 73-74; January, 1992