JAMES CARPENTER*  Is a former Associate Artist with California Shakespeare Theater and a former Associate Artist with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, appearing in over 30 productions at each. Other credits include work at Aurora Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Intiman Theatre, and American Conservatory, appearing in many productions as well as playing  Scrooge for 17 years.  Screen credits include the feature films The Rainmaker and Metro, the independent films Singing and For the Coyotes, and the series Nash Bridges. Carpenter is the recipient of many San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, including the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Arts and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, he was named a Ten Chimneys Foundation Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.