James Robert Daniels

James Robert Daniels is the author of The Comanche Kid and Jane Fury as well as plays about Sam Houston, Edwin Booth, Wyatt Earp and George Armstrong Custer. Jim is a member of Actors Equity and has been a professional actor and director for over forty years. His production of Othello performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and his play about the U.S.-Mexican War, So Far From God, was performed at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Jim was director of performance for the Western Michigan University Department of Theatre for twenty-five years and retired as professor emeritus, then taught for five years as a senior lecturer in acting at the University of Texas at Austin. Jim received his MFA in Acting from the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota, Florida. He served in the infantry in Vietnam with the Eighty-Second Airborne and in the artillery with the First Infantry Division. Jim and his wife, Patricia, live in Austin, Texas. https://www.facebook.com/James-Robert-Daniels-110567681455089/