For Pentabus: This Land, Red Sky at Night

James has a Master’s degree in Conducting and Composition (University of Hull).  He is an Associate Artist of Hull Truck.

Composition and Music credits include: Folk (Birmingham Rep/Watford Palace/Hull Truck); Get Carter (Northern Stage); Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, A Taste of Honey (Hull Truck); Mercury Fur, Weekend Rockstars: An Album Play (with Hull Truck); Modern Life Is Rubbish: A Musical Manifesto, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Middle Child Theatre); The Thing About Psychopaths (Red Ladder Theatre/National Tour).  Musical Director and Performer credits include: Dancehall (Cast Doncaster); The Night Before Christmas (Soho Theatre); This House (National Theatre, dep performer).  Sound Design credits include: A Further Education, Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Love Me Do (Watford Palace Theatre); The Ugly Sisters (Rash Dash/National Tour).