J. R. Sullivan is a director and producer, having worked in theaters nationwide as well as heading companies as artistic director. From 2009-2013, Sullivan was the Artistic Director of New York’s Pearl Theatre, whose resident acting company was presented with a Drama Desk Award recognition in 2011. For the Pearl, he directed productions of Hard Times, Playboy of the Western World, Widowers’ Houses, Biography, Richard II, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and the New York premiere of Wittenberg. His 2019 Off-Broadway Mint Theatre revival of Lillian Hellman’s Days to Come was named one of the best of the season by the Wall Street Journal. More recently Jim directed the world premiere of the musical Parcel from America at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. A New York Off-Broadway production is projected for November 2026.

Jim served as associate artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival from 2002-2009, staging productions ranging from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, including Henry IV, Part One, Amadeus, Hamlet, Henry V, The Glass Menagerie, and Romeo and Juliet.
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