Jim Chance

SAG-AFTRA On screen, Jim appeared in daytime dramas including Guiding Light, All My Children, and Another World on the CBS, ABC, and NBC television networks, respectively. He worked with director Doug Sadler on the award-winning USA Film Festival short, Horses, as well as Sadler's debut feature, Riders (2001 Los Angeles Film Festival), and Swimmers (2005 Sundance Film Festival Humanitas Prize finalist and Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for Best New American Film). Jim's other film credits include an IFC indie film, and a couple of offbeat, wacky horror films by filmmaker Robert Thayer. Jim holds degrees in Acting (MFA, 1990), Law (JD, 1982) and Government (BA, 1979). He also studied Acting for the Camera at AFI. As a postdoctoral student of Constitutional Laws at Queen's College, Oxford University (England), Jim's weekly pilgrimages to London theatres inspired his passion for theatre and a renewed appreciation for the transformative power of ideas. On stage, he worked off-Broadway in New York and in professional theatres in the U.S. and abroad, including the New York in world premieres of The Red Rose (with Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder John Barton), and Rescuers (at NYC's Mint Theatre and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington). He played Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night opposite Tony Award winner Frank Wood (as Orsino), and the title role in The Merchant of Venice with Royal Shakespeare Company emeritus David Howey (as Shylock). Favorite roles: Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Elwood Dowd in Harvey, and the title role in Tartuffe. Jim originated the role of Claude in the world premiere production of Michael Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf with Tony Award nominee Kurt Knudsen, and won critical acclaim for playing multiple characters opposite Tony Award nominee Evalyn Baron in a postmodern retelling of Metamorphosis at the San Francisco Theatre Project, the MAGIC Theatre, and Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.