James Carpenter

James Carpenter is a San Francisco Bay Area stage actor, who performs with the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda, California, and the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. ACT's Carey Perloff described him as "...one of the finest American actors anywhere." Carpenter moved to the Bay Area in the mid-1980s and started appearing onstage regularly with Berkeley Rep. In 2010, he was awarded a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. In 2010, the emphasis of the fellowship was Shakespeare and the master teacher was Barry Edelstein.

In 2001, he co-starred with Holly Hunter in By the Bog of Cats, a production by the San Jose Repertory Theatre. , he had played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in ACT's annual production A Christmas Carol for seven years in a row.