Jim Chance(I)
- Actor
Jim Chance (SAG-AFTRA) is an American actor whose film credits include: Swimmers (winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best New American Film at the Seattle International Film Festival and finalist for the Humanitas Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival) with Emmy & Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson and Emmy, Tony & Olivier Award winner Cherry Jones; Riders (Official Selection, 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival); and the award winning live action short, Horses (2000 USA Film Festival). He also appeared in director Liza Bear's Force of Circumstance (shot in 1984, released in 1990, and screened in the NY Museum of Modern Art's restoration series in 2023). Other movie credits include an IFC indie film, Lies the Radio Told Me, and a couple of wacky, offbeat, low-budget teen horror films.
Television credits include: All My Children (ABC); Guiding Light, As the World Turns (CBS); Another World (NBC).
New York theatre credits (Off-Broadway) include world premieres of The Red Rose at the Mint Theater (with Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder John Barton) and Rescuers at the Hudson Guild (and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Meyerhoff Theatre in Washington, DC).
Regional theatre credits include: Malvolio in Twelfth Night at People's Light & Theatre Co. with Tony Award winner Frank Wood (as Orsino); Claude in the world premiere of Michael Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre with Tony Award nominee Kurt Knudsen (as Victor); and the title role in The Merchant of Venice at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre with Royal Shakespeare Company emeritus David Howey (as Shylock). Jim was one of four actors cast to work with legendary Tony winner and Juilliard playwriting chair Christopher Durang in a collection of new one-acts (by Durang, John Augustine & David Ives) at the New Hope Theatre Festival, where he played (multiple roles including) the Narrator in Durang's Nina in the Morning with Tony Award nominee Kevin Del Aguila (as Foote). Jim won critical acclaim for his performances as the title character in La Bête (Philadelphia), Eddie in Fool for Love (San Francisco), and multiple roles in the San Francisco Theatre Project's brilliant production of Metamorphosis with director Lawrence Hecht at the MAGIC Theatre and Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Favorite stage roles include Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Elwood Dowd in Harvey, and the title role in Tartuffe.