James Bundy, former Dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Rep, will join The Actors Center Resident Company this November for a workshop dedicated to Shakespeare.
James Bundy (he/him/his) served as Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre from 2002 until 2026. He teaches in the Acting and Directing programs at the School and has taught in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies program in Yale College. During his tenure, Yale Rep produced more than thirty world, American, and regional premieres; ten shows were honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle as Best Production of the year and two plays were Pulitzer Prize finalists. Through WILLPOWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004, Yale Rep has provided low-cost theater tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven. The Binger Center for New Theatre, founded in 2008, has enabled the theatre to commission more than seventy artists to create new work. James has directed productions at the Mark Taper Forum, Theater for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. He served from 2007-13 on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. James is a graduate of Harvard College and David Geffen School of Drama; he also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, which awarded him an honorary degree in 2026.
