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Free Association Theatre

Katherine James is the artistic director of a theatre company, Free Association Theatre. The Free Association Theatre was founded in 1977. This theatre company puts on original plays and adaptations.

Katherine is currently writing a new musical based on a lawsuit she worked on called Head Case, a dark musical about justice.

Play for Jimmy, a comedy Katherine is now in the process of workshopping as a writer, is semi-autobiographical and involves her coming of age in the theater when she was 17, the summer of 1969.

Olympus, a fantasy about motherhood, will have a workshop production at Pomona College in 2012.

 
Theatricum Botanicum

Katherine is a co-chair of Seedlings Group for new plays. As a part of Seedlings Group, Katherine gives first readings and staged readings of playwrights who come in from all over the country. Katherine’s Free Association Theatre plays, Play for Jimmy and Olympus, both enjoyed their first readings as a part of this program and continue to flourish in the theater community.

Katherine has directed several plays at Theatricum Botanicum, including Tira Palquist’s Lost Nation, Henry Murray’s Monkey Adored, and Jonathan Goldberg’s How to Shoot a Bullmoose.

Katherine has acted in several of these readings, including Tiffany Antone’s Twigs and Bone and Hoyt Hillsman’s Family Values. Involvement in this group has sharpened Katherine’s awareness of her surroundings and talents as an actor.