theatrical run - from ages 20 to 24 (writer, producer, and/or actor):

Come See Our Shorts (writer - The Weather Sure Is Nice, "Narrator")

Radio Free Theatre 2001 (writer - A Day at the UN, "Canadian Ambassador", "Harpo Marx")

Mad Scientists in Love (author, producer, "Benjamin Vickers". Winner of Penny Award for Best Original Work.)

Instant Gratification (writer - Mad Scientists: Episode One, "Benjamin Vickers")

....And Other Hodge Podge (writer - Ten Second Play. Winner of Penny Award for Best Dramatic Short.)

Shiny Things (author, producer, "Narrator", "God", voices. Winner of Penny Award for Best Comic Short.)

Presentation on Shakespeare to Mrs. Nice's Class at White Oak Elementary (author, "Caesar")

Happy 10th Birthday, 1993! (producer, writer - Institute de la Comedia, "Robber", "FBI Agent", "Sam with the Sharpies", others)

Theatre of the Damned ...featuring Beast from Haunted Cave (co-author, producer, "Mezeltron")

Come See Our Shorts [#2] (writer - You Are Here, Potty Humor, Botched
Suicide Attempt #43, Innuedo, ...Is Another Man's Creativity, One Man's Brain Damage, "Mmm-Bop Reader", "Writer", "Guy", "News-singer", "Talkboy Satan", "Panty-Toucher", others)

Because Nine Minutes Was Not Enough ("Schizophrenic Outhouse Purveyor", "Dating Referee")

The Bald Soprano (producer)

Theatre of the Damned: Episode Two: Hellspawn ...still featuring Beast from Haunted Cave (co-author, producer, "Janitor")

Radio Free Theatre 2004 (writer - Pappy's Oldtime Radio, "Hitler", "Announcer")

Master and Margarita ("Derelict", "Demon")

Because Nine Minutes Was Not Enough (writer - Visiting Hours, "Tech Director", "Nathan", "Alien Roommate")

Seven Mediocre Student-Written Plays Starring Your Friends (writer - Holier @#%!, "God", "Dude", "Chimpanzee", "Salvador Dali", "Satan")

Two Chairs and a Table (writer - Two Chairs and a Table, A Mad Scientist A Lab Assistant and an Unholy Abomination Walk Into a Bar, Savage Beating of a Dead Horse, A Learning Process In Which the Pupil and the Teacher are in the Same Person, "Voice of Chronotrono")

Cigarettes and Purple Pillz ("God")

Come See Our Shorts [#3] (writer - Pappy's Bible Tales)

Jim Trapp: The Movie [Draft Reading at Illini Union Bookstore] (author, "Italics Reader", "Chronotrono", "Y")

Hamlet, A Comedy by William Shakespeare (producer/editor/director, "Voice of Ghost", "Fortinbras")

Theater of the Damned... And Other Horrors (writer - Theater of the Damned)

Penny Dreadful Players Board Member (Fall 2001 - Spring 2005)
-Artistic Director (Fall 2003)
-re-designed PDP website
-chairman and writer of Constitution revision
-sent many, many emails
-threw some pretty good parties

Jim has also worked as a reporter, costume salesman, sandwich-maker, customer service operator, and mad scientist available for birthday parties.