James Serpento
Actor
James Serpento is a largely Midwestern performing artist, filmmaker, and educator, having been raised in Iowa, and educated at Iowa State University (Ames) and Indiana University (Bloomington). He credits such Midwestern institutions as Chicago Dramatists, the Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Iowa Scriptwriters Alliance with his development as a writer for stage and screen.
His favorite city is Chicago, where he spent a number of years as an actor, director, writer and teacher before moving on to Los Angeles, where he has worked primarily as a director onstage, and to which he occasionally returns.
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His current projects are a musical version of Euripides' "The Bacchae," for which he co-authored book and lyrics with Jeff Charis-Carlson, with music by Sarah Evans; and two new plays, "Every Cottage Home" (co-authored with Louise Bylicki), and "Doll" (about Franz Kafka). A collection of new short plays, "Love, For Short," co-authored with R. Andrew White, adapted from works of Anton Chekhov, was published in 2021.
He has one child, a son named Samuel.
Known for
Acting7
- 2022When Jack Came Back as Ted Caroll
- 2019Red Sunset Drive as John Allen
- 2012Spread as Niles
- 2010Dead Awake as Detective Milano
- 200916 to Life as Kate's Dad
- 2009Haunting Villisca as David Salt
- TBAJury of Her Peers as Sheriff Joe Peters
Behind the camera1
- 2009Haunting Villisca Director