Jim Chance(I)
- Actor
Jim Chance (SAG-AFTRA) is an American actor whose film credits include: Swimmers (Grand Jury Prize winner for Best New American Film at Seattle International Film Festival and Humanitas Prize finalist at Sundance Film Festival) with Emmy & Tony Award winners Cherry Jones and Sarah Paulson; Riders (Official Selection, Los Angeles Film Festival); and the award winning live action short, Horses (USA Film Festival)...with director Doug Sadler. He appeared in director Liza Bear's Force of Circumstance (released in 1990, screened at NY Museum of Modern Art's restoration series in 2023). Other movie credits include an IFC indie film, Lies the Radio Told Me, and a couple of wacky, offbeat, low-budget teen horror films.
Television credits include: All My Children (ABC); Guiding Light, As the World Turns (CBS); Another World (NBC).
New York theatre credits (Off-Broadway) include world premieres of The Red Rose at the Mint Theater (with Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder John Barton) and Rescuers at the Hudson Guild (and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Meyerhoff Theatre in Washington, DC).
Regional theatre credits include: Malvolio in Twelfth Night at People's Light & Theatre Co. with Tony Award winner Frank Wood (as Orsino); Claude in the world premiere of Michael Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre with Tony Award nominee Kurt Knudsen (as Victor); and the title role in The Merchant of Venice at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre with Royal Shakespeare Company emeritus David Howey (as Shylock). Jim was one of four actors cast to work with the legendary Tony & Obie winning co-chair of Juilliard's playwriting program, Christopher Durang, on a collection of new one-acts (by Durang, David Ives & John Augustine) at the New Hope Theatre Festival. He played multiple roles including the Narrator in Durang's Nina in the Morning with Tony Award nominee Kevin Del Aguila (as Foote). Jim worked with Zelda Fichandler, Liviu Ciulei, and Garland Wright at Washington's Arena Stage, and won critical acclaim for performances as the title character in La Bête (Philadelphia), Eddie in Fool for Love (San Francisco), the title role in Tartuffe and Elwood Dowd in Harvey (Annapolis), Tom in director Peter Hackett's The Glass Menagerie (Washington), and multiple roles in San Francisco Theatre Project's Metamorphosis with director Lawrence Hecht at the MAGIC Theatre (SF) and Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.