James Savage

Associate Teacher

James Savage is an Assistant Professor at Ohio Northern University. He has performed off Broadway, Regionally, and Internationally. Some favorite highlights: NYC: Henry V, Richard II, and Hamlet, American Globe Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, The Wild Project; Tape, Duel Theatre Company, Doubt, Everyman, and Murder in the Cathedral; Black Orchid Theatre, and Your War’try Grave, La MaMa. Regional acting highlights: Julius Caesar, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and at The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Cleveland credits: The Sweepers, Ensemble Theatre at The Cleveland Playhouse; Six Degrees of Separation, Charenton Theatre; and Boy Gets Girl, The Beck Center for the Arts. He also performed and co-created a solo show called 8x10 (about solitary confinement in the US prison system) Which performed in NYC and the Cincy Fringe Festival in 2017 and played Odysseus in The Odyssey at the Hydrama Theatre on the island of Hydra in Greece.

As a fight director James has created fights for both educational and professional institutions around NYC and Ohio. In addition to acting and directing, James has also taught at various schools, in and around NYC, including The New School for Drama, the New York Film Academy, and NYU Steinhardt. He holds an MFA in Acting from The Pennsylvania State University, is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium and a certified instructor in Yoga and Tai Chi Chuan.

In addition to training in the Michael Chekhov technique James has extensively trained in the Sanford Meisner Technique and contributed two chapters in the Routledge book titled, Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training.