James Arrington

Who is James Arrington?

James Arrington is an American stage actor, director, playwright and scholar. His plays are about the people or the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Arrington studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and has a masters degree from Brigham Young University. He is currently the Department Chair for the Department of Theatrical Arts for Stage and Screen at Utah Valley University. Arrington is the son of LDS historian Leonard J. Arrington.

Arrington's plays include one man shows on LDS Church leaders Brigham Young, J. Golden Kimball and Wilford Woodruff. Here's Brother Brigham, in which Arrington wrote and performs, is a two-hour, two act play in which Brigham Young reads letters, reminisces about his past and has conversations with other people. By 2001, Arrington had performed the play almost 700 times.

He has written and produced a large number of plays around the fictional Farley family. One to four actors play up to 20 different members of the Farley family. The play is also performed by other actors including a U.S. Army performance company in Iraq and Afghanistan.