Professor of Theatre & Chair of the Theatre & Dance Department
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., University of California at San Diego
jscrawfo@sewanee.edu
Tennessee Williams Center 111 / ext 1303
Jim Crawford teaches classes in contemporary and classical acting, as well as Queer America on Stage and Screen. He is the co-director of the Sewanee-in-England program. Jim has directed many productions at Sewanee, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, Cabaret, Our Country’s Good, Urinetown, The Crucible, and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. A graduate of Brown University, he received his MFA at UC San Diego. An award-winning actor who’s worked at theatres across the country, Jim appeared in 15 productions at the Tony-winning Dallas Theater Center. He has made recent appearances at Nashville Rep in Sunday in the Park with George, Shakespeare in Love, Elf, and A Streetcar Named Desire, and on the television show English Teacher.
