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ELI JAMES is an actor, writer, songwriter and standup in New York.

His Broadway credits include the National Theatre of Great Britain's "One Man, Two Guvnors," directed by Nicholas Hytner, and Alex Timbers's and Michael Friedman's "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." His solo show "William and the Tradesmen" has been performed at Ars Nova, La Mama, and The Drilling Company. Further stage credits include "Rutherford and Son" and "Temporal Powers" at The Mint, "The Four of Us" at Manhattan Theatre Club, "Becky Shaw" at Boston’s Huntington Theater, and the world premiere of Jason Grote’s "Maria/Stuart," directed by Pam McKinnon. His TV credits include "Gossip Girl," "Lights Out," and "Murder in Manhattan." He co-founded, wrote and performed with the sketch comedy group Quiet Library at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and currently performs with improv team Pleading Softly. His essay "Finding the Beat" was published in the Random House collection "Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers," a Boston Globe Bestseller.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

It's Back.


I went on vacation. That should be obvious from the picture of the 17th-century royal crest I found in the subterranean crypt of an Irish Protestant church. I know it screams "kickin' back."


It had been three years since my last escape from New York, when I went to the North of England and discovered the Withnail house. Those of you who know what I'm talking about, know how huge that was.

2009. In front of the abandoned house used to shoot Crow Crag.
I ran the gamut of tribulations during my last three years in New York, to a point where I would not feel totally wrong using the word "Dickensian" to describe them. (Prolonged infirmity, dislocation, and creepy houses overrun with vermin make me feel okay about using such a term. Luckily I avoided any workhouses, orphanages or guillotines.) However, one of the high points of this year was my getting to go on as Stanley Stubbers in the Broadway production of "One Man, Two Guvnors" on one glorious August afternoon. It pretty much made my life. Observe life-made face:

Me in "One Man, Two Guvnors" on Broadway with James Corden


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