As producer in the RSC’s digital department, James leads productions and projects that transpose story and theatre methodologies to platforms beyond the traditional stage, bringing artists and technologists together to create new form media & ways to interact. As R&D facilitator, he leads a programme of research that test new tools and approaches across digital humanism, performance capture, virtual & hybrid production and audience experience in the context of remote performance.

As an independent producer for 20+ years, he has led theatre companies, venues, festivals and creative innovation projects collaborating with BBC Proms, South Bank Centre, The Old Market, Lyric Hammersmith, Edinburgh Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre as well as making work for theatres, village halls, schools, churches and festival tents.