Jim
Speake Tenor
jim@jimspeake.com
Height: 5ft 8in Weight: 155lb Hair: gray Eyes: Hazel
THEATER
"Carapace
Isle" by Jon Courie, role: "Bo" McDonald,
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
in Association
with Rachel Charlop-Powers, NYC,
Director: Michele Pawk
"Ten Nights In A Bar-Room",
role: Romaine,
Out of the Box Theatre Co. at the Bank Street Theatre, NYC
Director Scott Robinson
"The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas", Role: Governor/Scruggs,
Fire Island Pines Arts Project, NY, Directed
by DJ Salisbury,
Musical Direction by Brian Allan Hobbs.
"It Takes The Village"
a benefit for St. Luke's in the Fields
featured soloist, The Lucille Lortel Theater,
Producer
& Director: James Belzer,
Musical Director: Brian Taylor
"The USO Show" role: soloist,
The Arts Project of Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY
Directed by John DeMarco, Musical Direction by Christopher Vassiliades
"Bank Street
Follies" role: soloist, HB Studio Events Committee,
HB Playwrights Foundation Theater, NYC, Directed by
Edward Morehouse
"Titanic Voices" role: Senator Fletcher, Ten Grand and a Burger
Productions,Inc. NYC
Directed by Karen Sommers and Jason Hewitt
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Louisiana" role: Gator,
written & composed by John D. Ivy, The Orphanage an artists collective, Inc. NY
"Drone"
role: Gonzalez, by Alex Ladd, The Lord Strange Troupe, New York
Directed by Alice McLane
"Don't Call
Us" role: The Agent, Gallery Players, Brooklyn, Mark Harborth, Dir
"The Brooklyn Revue"
role: Soloist, Ryan Rep. Co. B. Parisi, John Sannuto, Dir
"The Scarlet Letter" role: The
Mariner, Wings Theater, New York,
Bob Hollinger Director and Paul Johnson Musical Director
"She Loves
Me" role: Keller, Gallery Players, Brooklyn,
Mary Ruth Goodley, Dir
"1776"
role: Caesar Rodney, Dekalb Music Theater, Atlanta, Ga.
J. Jenkins, Dir
"My Fair
Lady","The Student Prince", "Ruddigroe","Trial By Jury",
Savoyards
Musical Theater Co, Atlanta, Ga, Lynn Thompson Dir
"US Olympic Games 1996, Opening &
Closing Ceremonies" Atlanta, Ga.
RADIO
"The Joey Reynolds Show" WOR
AM 710
live solo performance with Steven Ray Watkins on piano17 Oct 2008
TELEVISION
"Sex and
the City" New York, "The Sopranos" New York
FILM
"The Guys"
Jim Simpson Dir ,New York
"The Interpreter" Sidney Pollock, Dir ,NewYork
"Ghost Town" David
Koepp, Dir, New York
CABARET
Jim Speake sings "My Generation" songs of the 1960's and1970's
with Wendy A.
Russell and Lennie Watts.
Musical Director: Steven Ray Watkins, Director: Lennie Watts.
Drums: Jerry
Smith, Bass: Dan Fabricatore
at Don't Tell Mama NYC.
Jim Speake SINGS "I'm
A Brass Band!" the music of Cy Coleman,
Metropolitan Room and Don't Tell Mama NYC, Direction
By Lennie Watts,
Musical Direction By Steven Ray Watkins
"Opening Act"
for Suzzanne Douglas in "Lucky To Be Me", Birdland New York City,
Producers: Michael Bush and
Alex Fraser
"Jim Speake Sings"
Director: Lennie Watts,
Musical Director:
Steven Ray Watkins
at The Duplex, NYC
"Overnight Sensations", Don't Tell
Mama NYC,
Producer/ Director: NativeAliens Theater Collective
EDUCATION/TRAINING
*Beverly Hills Playhouse/ New York
2010, Jennifer Gelfer, New York
*Stetson Studio: Meisner Technique, Ron Stetson, Gary Kingston
2001-2003,
New York
*Neighborhood Playhouse: Summer Intensive
2001, Richard Pinter, New York
*HB Studio: 2000-2007,
Acting: Amy Wright, Alice McLane, Jim Boerlin,
Vocal Performance:
George Axiltree, Donna KcKechnie,
KT Sullivan, NY
*Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Waterford, Ct, 2005 Cabaret Conference:
Penny Fuller,
Barry Kleinbort, Joel Silberman, Michael Bush
*Cap 21: Summer Intensive 2000, New York Jim Litten, Margaret Morrison,
John Herrera, Meg Bussart
Private Voice, New York: Patrick
DeGennaro, David Sabella
University of Alabama: BS Bus Admin
University of Georgia: B of Landscape Architecture
SPECIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Basic Tap, Drivers
License, Photography, US Army Vet
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