Actor

James
Lecesne

(Performing through March 27)
His one-man play Word of Mouth was presented Off-Broadway by Mike Nichols & Elaine May and directed by Eve Ensler (NY Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Solo Performance). Word of Mouth went on to be performed in Los Angeles (LA Weekly Theater Award), at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, and in many cities throughout the U.S. Other theater credits include, One Man Band, directed by Jack Hofsiss, Cloud 9, directed by Tommy Tune; Extraordinary Measures, written & directed by Eve Ensler; and the 30th anniversary production of Boys in the Band, directed by Ken Elliot. I Am My Own Wife, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Hartford Stage Co). Film & Television: Sex & The City, Home for the Holidays, Broadway Damage and Motherhood. Other: He wrote the short film Trevor, which received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and he is co-founder of The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending suicide among LGBT & Questioning youth. James has published two young adult novels, Absolute Brightness and Virgin Territory; and he wrote The Road Home; Stories of Children of War, which was presented at the International Peace Initiative at The Hague, adapted Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the City for Showtime (Emmy Nomination) and wrote one of the final episodes of Will & Grace.