Jim Frangione is co-founder and artistic director of Great Barrington Public Theater, where he supervises the development and production of new plays. Jim spent over 3 decades as a character actor in NYC and across the country. He’s also a director and a playwright. His play, Flight of the Monarch, set on Cape Cod, was produced at Gloucester Stage Company and in summer of 2024 at Shakespeare & Company, received a Berkie Award Nomination for Best New Play. The sequel to that play, The Shallows, is being developed with public readings at Shakespeare & Company. Jim’s play Breakwater was the inaugural production at GBPT. Jim’s directed many plays with GBPT and elsewhere: Mark St. Germain’s play, Dad, Will Lebow’s bio-play, The Bard The Beat The Blues, David Mamet’s The Christopher Boy’s Communion and Anne Undeland’s play Lady Randy. Jim has acted with the Atlantic Theater Company, in National Tours, on Broadway and at many regional theaters such as The Alley Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company and at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. He’s appeared in many tv shows and in the films: Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Suits, Claire Dolan and Maryam. Jim is an award-winning audiobook narrator. His wife, Anne O’Dwyer, is the author of the new book, A Driving Anger, about road rage. Their two cats, Mookie and Jackpot are both home-schooled in Housatonic.
