James Comtois
PLAYS
The Adventures of Nervous-Boy
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James Comtois
The Little One
by
James Comtois
James Comtois is the co-founding co-artistic director of the New York-based theatre company Nosedive Productions, which was named a "Person of the Year" by nytheatre.com in 2009. He's written over 20 plays in the past 10 years, many of which have been staged by Nosedive. The New York Times recently compared him to Conor McPherson and Tracy Letts, which he thought was very nice of the newspaper. Published plays include The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (in Plays and Playwrights 2007 by the New York Theatre Experience), Suburban Peepshow, and Infectious Opportunity (both by Original Works Publishing). Other staged plays include Colorful World, Nona (based on the short story by Stephen King, as part of The Blood Brothers present...The Master of Horror), The Little One, Otty (as part of The Blood Brothers present...FREAKS FROM THE MORGUE) and Captain Moonbeam & Lynchpin. He lives in Brooklyn and has two cats. He thinks they're very cute.
Website: http://www.nosediveproductions.com
Blog: http://jamespeak.blogspot.com
Contact Info: Rochelle at rd@indietheaternow.com
Playwright Links
James Comtois on the Indie Theater Blog
Nosedive’s Apocalypse Gala: Major Indie Theater Now Playwright Confab
(February 17, 2012)
We’re excited about Nosedive Productions annual gala, which is being held on March 14 at the Kraine Theater. This “Apocalypse Gala” features host Bastard Keith, burlesque, comedy, poetry, plus four short new plays, three of them written by ITN playwrights. Yep, you get to pal around with ITN playwright James Comtois (The Adventures of Nervous-Boy) [...]
James Comtois Profiles Mac Rogers
(November 25, 2011)
James Comtois has written a dandy profile of Mac Rogers for the Indie Theater Companion which begins by comparing Mac to "an over-caffeinated James Stewart clone."
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