James Faerron

Who is James Faerron?

James Faerron resides in San Francisco, California, where he presently is the Producing Manager for Z Space and Co-Artistic Director for Encore Theatre Company. He is also the Resident Set Designer for theater companies Campo Santo and Encore Theatre and the Technical Theater Instructor for San Francisco University High School.

James’ design career started in Miami, Florida, where he worked for The Actor’s Playhouse and The Area Stage Theater Company. His move to San Francisco in 1996 led to becoming the Technical Director and Production Manager for The Magic Theatre where he met and joined forces with Lisa Steindler and Sean San Jose

James is known as a minimalist designer. His designs focus on the word and forward movement of the script. For the past 15 years he has concentrated on developing new plays and designing sets for many World Premieres by playwrights such as Octavio Solis, Adam Bock, Erin Cressida Wilson, Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka, Greg Sarris, Mark Jackson, Yussef El Guindi, Loretta Grecco, José Rivera, Carl Djerassi, Dave Eggers, Philip Kan Gotanda, Kevin Fisher, Jessica Hagedorn, Teresa Walsh, Luis Saguar, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas and Zayd Dohrn.