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Katherine James has been working in the theater since she was five years old. She is currently the artistic director of Free Association Theatre, the company she founded with Alan Blumenfeld nearly 35 years ago.
A classically trained repertory actor, Katherine has acted in, written, directed and produced theater for over half a century. She added film and television into the mix for about twenty years, and now is back to only working “on the boards” her first artistic home. She currently loves working with new plays – her own and those of others – and is a vital part of the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings Program. She also is an active member of LAFPI – The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative which is working with the New York FPI on the 50/50 by 2020 project (50% of new plays produced being written by women by the year 2020).
As part of the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings Program, Katherine has written “The Old Salt,” a play that is being performed at Theatricum as a part of the Seedlings “Certified Organic” festival. One of the characters is based in part on an expert witness she worked with several years ago. Her play “Olympus,” a spoken word opera based on the mythology of motherhood is going to be produced in a workshop production in the 2011-12 season. She recently finished the first draft of “Head Case,” a dark musical about justice based on the story of a class action law suit she worked on in the 90’s. Her love song to the theater, “A Play For Jimmy” is in production meetings with an eye to a full equity production in the near future.
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Alan Blumenfeld is one of the hardest working veteran character actors in Hollywood. His lengthy and detailed Filmogaphy on The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) spans his work for the past three decades. If you click here right now, you will find something that will make you say, “Oh, that’s right! I knew I recognized him!”
If you set your TiVo or DVR, you can record all of the reruns of Alan’s past film and TV work as they appear on television.This past year, Alan guest starred on THE MENTALIST, ZEKE AND LUTHER and just began work on the independent film, FLUID. Depending on your age, the kinds of shows you like and your depth of dedication to watching movies and television, you may recognize him from any number of shows. Maybe you remember him from the films TIN MEN or RIGHTEOUS KILL or IN HER SHOES. Or as a recurring character in the television series HEROES or BROOKLYN BRIDGE. He’s played hundreds of characters one time or another on so many half hour and hour long shows as well as movies of the week that it makes him smile to think about your delight when you read the list and recognize your favorite shows of the past and present.
He got his start in the theater – and he works on stage constantly. He has appeared on Broadway, in many regional companies, and is currently associated in Los Angeles with Theatricum Botanicum, A Noise Within, and South Coast Rep. He just finished a wonderful summer season at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California Alan played Falstaff in MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and Cleante in TARTUFFE.
In addition to his busy acting career, Alan enjoys teaching acting as an adjunct professor at Pomona College.
Additional information regarding Alan Blumenfeld’s theatrical and on screen performances may be viewed by clicking here.