James Carpenter is a

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stage actor, who performs with the California Shakespeare Theater in

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, and the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. ACT's

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described him as "...one of the finest American actors anywhere." Carpenter moved to the Bay Area in the mid-1980s and started appearing onstage regularly with

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. Over the next few decades, he performed with other Bay Area companies including California Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, ACT,

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, Aurora Theatre, and the Black Box Theatre. In 2010, he was awarded a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. The fellowships are awarded to the best American regional theatre actors, who are then invited to attend a

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. In 2010, the emphasis of the fellowship was Shakespeare and the master teacher was Barry Edelstein. , he had played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in ACT's annual production '' A Christmas Carol'' for seven years in a row.

References

External links

James Carpenter's Richard III blog
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