Stage Solos - DeVita, James
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The Desert Queen In 1921 Winston Churchill summoned the greatest experts on the Middle East to a conference in Egypt to determine the future of Mesopotamia. The conference included 39 men. And Gertrude Bell. A fascinating look at the woman -- mostly lost to history -- who helped draw the borders of modern-day Iraq and greatly influenced the political future of the middle east. Waiting for Vern Opening night of a new two-person play. Only one actor shows up. A comic ode to Waiting for Godot. Dickens in America An evening with Charles Dickens, adapted from his works and words. 1867. Charles…mehr

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The Desert Queen In 1921 Winston Churchill summoned the greatest experts on the Middle East to a conference in Egypt to determine the future of Mesopotamia. The conference included 39 men. And Gertrude Bell. A fascinating look at the woman -- mostly lost to history -- who helped draw the borders of modern-day Iraq and greatly influenced the political future of the middle east. Waiting for Vern Opening night of a new two-person play. Only one actor shows up. A comic ode to Waiting for Godot. Dickens in America An evening with Charles Dickens, adapted from his works and words. 1867. Charles Dickens, on his final speaking tour of the United States, muses on literature, life, career, and this young country called America.
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James DeVita, a native of Long Island, NY, is an author, actor, and a theater director. He is a core company member and literary manager at American Players Theater, a classical repertory theater in Wisconsin. He has worked as an actor in Japan, Germany, Australia, Ireland, and around the United States, and also worked as a fisherman on Long Island for five seasons. Along with his novels, A Winsome Murder, The Silenced, Blue, and Indifferent Red (Fall 2021), Jim has also worked extensively as a playwright. His work for young audiences has been acknowledged with The Distinguished Play Award from The American Alliance of Theater and Education; The Intellectual Freedom Award by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts; the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwrighting Contest, and The American Alliance of Theater and Education honored his body of work with the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Award. His adult and produced plays for the stage include: An Improbable Fiction; Learning to Stay, Christmas in Babylon, Gift of the Magi (a musical adaptation); In Acting Shakespeare; The Desert Queen (the life of Gertrude Bell); Dickens In America; Waiting for Vern, and a new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Jim is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Fiction, and a member of The Dramatists Guild and Actors Equity Association. His education began as a first mate on the charter boat JIB VII out of Captree Boat Basin, NY, where he worked for five seasons. He then studied theater at Suffolk County Community College. Long Island, where he received an AS degree, then the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received a BFA. He also attended Madison Area Technical College where he was licensed as an Emergency Medical Technician. He lives in a small town in Wisconsin.