James (Jim) Eikrem is a freelance Theater Instructor, Director, Actor, and past Artistic Director at Clackamas Community College. He offers instruction in acting, improvisation, directing, movement, and clowning in addition to ongoing freelance work as a Fitzmaurice Voicework® Associate. He is a frequent accent coach in the Portland, Oregon area, incorporating techniques learned in Knight-Thompson Speechwork courses along with Fitzmaurice Voicework®. As an Assistant Professor of Theater at Central Michigan University, he authored and directed "Men, Women and Ghosts," a Narrative Theater performance compiled from ghost stories by Shirley Jackson, Amy Lowell, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, and Edith Wharton for the Riecker Literary Series. He also appeared as Mark Twain in their productions of "The World According to Twain: Accounts, Tales, And Yarns" and as James in "The Moment of Your Being," both created and compiled by Jill Taft-Kaufman. He co-produced, directed, and co-scripted "Lines of Reasoning" a sexual harassment training film for CUPA-HR, the National Academic Human Resources Association. Jim has a great passion for character development through voice, improvisation, and clowning. He has collaborated on and directed over one hundred clown acts and has directed over fifty plays in professional and academic venues, including Music Theater productions. Playing is essential in Jim’s work.
MFA, New York University Graduate Acting Program; BA Theater Arts & BA English, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
