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

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