James Ijames is a Temple University graduate, a theater professor at Villanova University, and the co-artistic director at the Wilma Theater.
These are Broadway's top honors, and the revival musical" is up for a Tony Award.
Ijames is a Temple University graduate, a theater professor at Villanova University, and the co-artistic director at the Wilma Theater."Fat Ham" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year and now, it's a Tony Award nominee for"I'm over the moon," Ijames says. "It's just really lovely, and whirlwind. It feels like it's been very fast, but I also feel like I've been like living with this play for a really long time. I'm just thrilled.
"If you know it works in front of this local audience, then you know it can meet any audience," Ijames says. "The Philadelphia audience is one of the most discerning audiences I've ever had to put my art in front of. I think I really learned how to be an artist here." Ijames says he has this message for his students and any creators and makers and artists: "That thing that you dream, you're dreaming it on purpose."
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