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Program Bio

JAMES DE MARSE Broadway: Dividing the Estate at the BOOTH. Off Broadway: Orphans Home Cycle at SIGNATURE, Dividing the Estate at PRIMARY STAGES, The Trip to Bountiful at SIGNATURE, Y2K & Bits and Pieces at MTC, Cantorial at the LAMBS, Cahoots at the SOUTH STREET THEATRE, Subject to Fits, Happiness Cage at the PUBLIC, War of the Roses, Twelfth Night, Peer Gynt at the DELACORTE. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf directed by Arthur Penn, Last Moon directed by Estelle Parsons - at the ACTORS STUDIO, Diminished Capacity by Tom Dulack at the NEW GROUP, SLOUCHING TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM by Murray Schisgal at the 42nd STREET WORKSHOP. Regional: Dividing the Estate at THE ALLEY & OLD GLOBE, Breaking Legs at the PASADENA PLAYHOUSE, Serenading Louie at CINNCINATTI PLAYHOUSE, Shooting Craps at the MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE. Film: Side by Each with Blythe Danner, The Baxter, Soldier’s Heart, Fresh Cut Grass. TV: “Rescue Me”, Episodes of ‘Law & Order”, “Law & Order: CI”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Sopranos”, “The Good Wife”, “Royal Pains”. Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Orphans Home Cycle. Member: Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Dramatists Guild of America. 

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Interview - Animated NEW Yorkers By Jack Feldstein

"...James DeMarse was one of the three founders (along with Sam Schacht & Michelle Bouchard) of the 42nd St Workshop. I was very fortunate to be able to chat with James in his apartment in the Upper West Side and learn about the creation of the process of new play development in New York City. And from our discussion, I've produced my next ANIMATED NEW YORKERS." - Jack Feldstein

Hirschfeld

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About the Play
With the release of a bombshell report about sex abuse, an Assistant District Attorney, her son, and a Catholic priest are forced to confront their unresolved pasts and uncertain futures. 

National Black Theatre Festival

July 31st - August 7th

Winston-Salem, NC

Leon Addison Brown, Charles Turner, Henry Hodges and James DeMarse

the new york times theater review: 'The orphans' home cycle' (11/09)
Signature Theatre
Playbill.com
Play review: 'Estate' is on the money
Pittsburgh City Paper
Lincoln Center Theater
Ensemble Studio Theatre

“He is an extraordinary actor with gifts in humor and irony that are exceedingly rare. His work as George...truly illuminated an aspect of the play I feel was never seen before.” Arthur Penn

"DeMarse's lines are so profoundly believable that they conjure up a man one has met in the past." (American Arts on Slouching Toward the Millenium)

"DeMarse with a rubbery face, tongue hanging out, eyes bulging body bent over, arms hanging loose, convinces us beyond any reasonable doubt is the forlorn creature, and it's worth the price of admission just to see him." Lucy Komisar, American Reporter

“awesomely sympathetic”. NY Times on Slouching Toward the Millenium

“...just can’t get enough of DeMarse whose adroit performances throughout keep the evening buoyant. Time Out on Slouching Toward the Millenium

Member of the ACTORS STUDIO, the ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER, and The DRAMATISTS GUILD of AMERICA, Inc.

James Demarse

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