James Carpenter is a San Francisco Bay Area stage actor, who performs with the

California Shakespeare Theater California Shakespeare Theater ("Cal Shakes") is a regional theater located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Its performance space, the Lt. G. H. Bruns III Memorial Amphitheater, is located in Orinda, while the administrative offices, ...

in Orinda, California, and the

American Conservatory Theater The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a nonprofit theater company in San Francisco, California, United States, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. It also has an attached acting school. History The Ameri ...

(ACT) in San Francisco. ACT's Carey Perloff 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 Berkeley Rep. Over the next few decades, he performed with other Bay Area companies including California Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, ACT, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 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 master class. In 2010, the emphasis of the fellowship was Shakespeare and the master teacher was

Barry Edelstein Barry Edelstein is an American theatre director and author. He was appointed as Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, on October 17, 2012. He was also Director of the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater's S ...

. , he had played the role of

Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge () is the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol''. At the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas. The tale of his redemption by three spirits (the Ghost of ...

in ACT's annual production ''

A Christmas Carol ''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas C ...

'' for seven years in a row.

References

External links

James Carpenter's Richard III blog
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area American male Shakespearean actors American male stage actors {{US-theat-actor-stub