James is a prolific and versatile actor, director and dramaturg.

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BA Acting 2013), and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Classical Acting, 2017).

For Sport for Jove Theatre, James performed as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Prince Escalus in Romeo & Juliet, and most recently Iago in Othello.
He also played various roles in Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.

James appeared in over 200 performances for Pop Up Globe. He played Oliver in As You Like It and Westmoreland in Henry V during the Melbourne season, and A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Merchant of Venice in the Sydney season.

He has also been seen as Prince Henri De Conde in The Devils, Egeus and Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Murphet's Quick Death/Slow Love at La Mama Theatre, The Rivers of China at TheatreWorks, Once Were Pirates, and playing the title role in the hugely successful revival of The Legend of King O'Malley in both Sydney and Melbourne.

Whilst training at the VCA, he played Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, Ludwig Leichhardt in Too Young for Ghosts, Billy in Five Kinds of Silence, Prospero in The Tempest, and The Blind Man in Eddie Goes to Poetry City. His other credits include Safe Sex, Putting it Together, I Love You Because, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The History Boys, Generous and Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth.

He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Bar'd Work, a theatre and entertainment company based in Sydney, for whom he recently directed Much Ado About Nothing.

James is a proud member of MEAA since 2013.



James is represented in Australia by Expression Arts Management.