Jim Fletcher

Jim Fletcher (born 1963) is an American actor. He won an Obie Award for his performance work, including in Gatz, a staging of the full text of the novel The Great Gatsby. The New York Times has described him as "a stalwart of the New York avant-garde scene."

Early life Fletcher was born in 1963 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a child, he assisted his father, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC, by running the slideshows for his presentations. He and Kelsey worked with Lotringer and Chris Kraus editing books for Semiotext(e), and would later both join Bernadette Corporation.

Career Fletcher began acting in 1998 at age 35. Notable roles include Jay Gatsby in Gatz, ERS's staging of The Great Gatsby, appearing alongside his father, Ross Fletcher, a medical doctor with no prior acting experience, who played Gatsby's father. He played Frankenstein's monster in Oursler's film Imponderable,

He co-wrote and appeared in the 2010 film Bass Ackwards.

With the Wooster Group, he has performed in A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique), and Bertolt Brecht's The Mother. In the Wooster Group's adaptation of Troilus and Cressida, Cry, Trojans! Fletcher dressed as an "Indian."

Fletcher has written collaborative texts with the artist collective Bernadette Corporation. Fletcher has also written for Bomb magazine and Artforum.

Fletcher has performed in several pieces with the Native American artist collective New Red Order (Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil), who invited him to dinner because of his "Indian" performance in Cry, Trojans.