

Billie Holiday Theater November 2019
...is the thread that runs through the life and work of James Sheldon. From his time as a newspaper and magazine reporter, when he sought to “get the scoop”and tell the story as it had just happened, to a long stint as a stock market investor, trying to predict the story of a company’s financial future, James has always been a storyteller.
Since 2007, as a playwright with nine professional productions of his work, including two in London and one Off-Broadway, he has been writing his own stories.
Reparations, which first premiered at The Billie Holliday Theater in Brooklyn, was revived by the Gloucester Stage Company, at the Windhover Performing Arts Center, MA.
Photos by Jason Grow
November 2019
Audelco Awards
Winner - "Best Play 2020"
Photos by Dex R. Jones
* Audelco Awards honor excellence in black theater.
Winner Best Play- 2020 Audelco Awards
Winner Best Play- 2021 Broadway World Boston
Reparations is coming to New England in September 2021. Click on the post to learn more.
Last week I did an interview for WBGO radio, along with my director and lead actor, about my new play, Reparations. The interview highlights the controversies embedded in the play.
You can listen to the interview by clicking on the post.
J. Sheldon. 10/28/2019
James has written eight plays since 2007, revealing the mythic in the mundane in a variety of settings from a remote Pacific island to the former Soviet Union to a secret federal facility for notorious white-collar criminals.
His plays have been produced in London (“A Model For Mankind” and “Shiverman”), Off-Broadway (“Reparations”) and in the northeastern United States.
If you'd like to learn more, feel free to contact James with questions, comments or ideas.