Jim Ligon Biography

is delighted to be back on stage at PTNJ. He has been associated with Playwrights Theatre as an actor, director and teacher for the past 12 years in a variety of venues, including the New Play Development Program, the Madison Young Playwrights Festival, and the New Jersey Writers Project and Festival. Jim has appeared in New York City in two long running comedy serials, Ailanthus Grove, and Spyz. He was in Heathen Valley and A Woman Without a Name for Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney season and was Paul in the NY premiere of Jim Grimsley's The Lizard of Tarsus with John Pietrowski, directed by Joseph Megel. Favorite regional credits include Thurston in Greater Tuna, Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Charlie Fox in Speed the Plow. He has appeared at many regional theatres including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Hanger Theatre, the Dorset Theatre Festival, Theatre Virginia and with the What Exit? Theatre Company in Maplewood, NJ. Jim is an adjunct faculty member of the Montclair State University theatre department, where he teaches the BFA freshman acting classes. You can also see him on your TV screen in many national and regional commercials.