James Still is an American playwright, writer, and director. He was born in Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas. His career as a playwright began around 1990. He is the playwright in residence at Indiana Repertory Theatre, which has produced world premieres of his plays, including We Forgot How to Dream: April 4, 1968 and The House that Jack Built. His solo performance piece, The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name) premiered at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York and has since been produced nationwide.
Still is a member of the National Theatre Conference. He has won the William Inge Festival’s Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for Distinguished Body of Work, among other distinctions. Much of his work is for young audiences. Still is also known for drawing from history and incorporating multimedia in his plays. His play And Then They Came for Me: Remember the World of Anne Frank utilizes videos of real Holocaust survivors alongside live actors.
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