James Callàs Ball
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My Contact Number:
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Credits
| Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 |
Co-Director
Theatre |
Gambling Theatre Project [unnamed] Arts Council Funded R&D |
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| 2023 |
Lead Associate Director
Theatre |
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe Elliot Harper Productions & Birmingham Rep Company |
Birmingham Rep Company |
| 2023 |
Director
Theatre |
Kissed By A Flame Batavia Productions |
Pleasance Theatre, London |
| 2023 |
Director
Theatre |
buckets Court Theatre Training Company |
Courtyard Theatre |
| 2022 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
A Christmas Carol Royal Shakespeare Company |
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon |
| 2022 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe Elliot Harper Productions |
Gillian Lynne Theatre [West End] |
| 2022 |
Director
Theatre |
Punk Rock Court Theatre Training Company |
Courtyard Theatre |
| 2022 |
Director
Theatre |
Will Pickvance : Half-Man Half-Piano Seabright Productions |
Assembly Piccolo, Edinburgh |
| 2022 |
Director
Theatre |
Are You Being Murdered? Seabright Productions |
Pleasance EICC, Edinburgh |
| 2021 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe UK & Ireland Tour |
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| 2021 |
Director
Theatre |
All That Kings Head Theatre |
Kings Head Theatre |
| 2021 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
Amelie The Musical Hartshorn Hook Productions |
Criterion Theatre [West End] |
| 2018 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
The Importance of Being Earnest Vaudeville Theatre [West End] |
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| 2018 |
Associate Director
Theatre |
The Fall of Anne Boleyn Royal Historic Palaces |
Tower of London |
| 2016 |
Assistant Director
Theatre |
Loot by Joe Orton Park Theatre, London |
Education
| Year | Qualification | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Trainee Director Scheme | Kings Head Theatre, London |
| 2012 | Foundation in Acting | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art [RADA] |
| 2011 | BA (Hons) Drama : First Class | University of East Anglia |
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About me
James is a freelance theatre director who trained at RADA and the Kings Head Theatre.He directed the award-winning All That by Shaun Kitchener as the headline production for the Kings Head Theatre’s Queer Season 2021. He worked with comedy icon Arthur Bostrom, known for his role as Officer Crabtree (Allo’ Allo’), in Are You Being Murdered? by BBC writer David Semple at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as co-creating Half-Man Half-Piano with virtuoso pianist Will Pickvance. Other credits include Kissed By A Flame (Pleasance), Positive (Waterloo East Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Guildford Fringe), Deadline Day (TheatreN16). James has directed productions at drama schools including buckets and Punk Rock (CTTC) and Wonder of the World (RWCMD).
As an Associate Director, he has worked predominantly with director Michael Fentiman. Productions include Olivier and Grammy-nominated Amélie the Musical (West End 2021), The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe (West End 2022-23) - which James recently revived at the Birmingham Rep Company, The Importance of Being Earnest (West End 2018); Ruffian On The Stair (Hope Theatre); Loot (Park Theatre), The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London). He was Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company on their revival of David Edgar’s A Christmas Carol.
James founded Speechless Theatre Company devising original plays-with-no-words based on clowning, mime, and physical theatre. Productions included: Hamlet… With No Words; Drawn In, and All or Nothing? He previously worked as an actor starring in the Fringe sell-out Margaret Thatcher Queen of Gameshows by Jon Brittain and Matt Tedford.
Skills
| Secondary Job Title | Director, Assistant |
|---|---|
| Job Titles | Director |
| Years in industry | 6+ years |
| Organisations / Memberships | Directors UK (UK), Equity (UK) |