James P. Stanton is a 2014 graduate of the Hunter College Department of Theatre’s Master of Arts and Baruch College’s Masters of Arts Administration, 2019. He was a recipient of the CUNY Vera Roberts Fellowship for his anti-war play A Fortnight at Tripler, which was also recognized as a 2020 AITAF Bridge Award Semi Finalist. He performed in Aquila Theatre’s five state tour of Our Trojan War, and The Public’s and Shakespeare in the Park’s full musical production of Twelfth Night at Central Park’s Delecorte Theater, summer 2018. A native New Yorker, Colonel Stanton is a combat veteran who served in the Air Force as a fighter and bomber pilot, commander, accident investigator, and strategic international analyst. He is now an actor, playwright, attorney, and an administrative law hearing officer for the City of New York. His New York theatrical production company is The Stanton Firm LLC.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Veteran Voices 2020: Reckoning
Featured performer in Together in Resilience: A Celebration presented with Judson Arts Wednesdays
Performer in Veteran Voices 2019 in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Featured Veteran Artist presenting his original work before the October 6th, 2017 performance of Outside Paducah: The Wars At Home as part of the Veteran Voices 2017 Series.