James Sherman currently teaches playwriting and improvisation at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University. He has been a teacher of playwriting and acting on the faculties of The Second City Training Center, Chicago Dramatists Workshop, and Victory Gardens Theater. In 2001, he was a visiting professor in Seoul, South Korea at the Korean National University of the Arts. He has led workshops in improvisation at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has been the recipient of grants from the Illinois Arts Council and fellowships from MacDowell, the Ragdale Foundation, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and Actors Equity Association.
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
James Sherman
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
Studios
Schelling
James Sherman worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…