James Savage Jr. is an associate professor at Ohio Northern University and an associate teacher with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. He has performed Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. Some favorite highlights include Henry V, Richard II, and Hamlet at the American Globe Theatre; Doubt, Everyman, and Murder in the Cathedral at the Black Orchid Theatre; and Your War’try Grave at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. He performed and co-created a solo show titled 8x10 (about solitary confinement in the United States prison system) in New York City and at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival in 2017, and played Odysseus in The Odyssey at the Hydrama Theatre on the island of Hydra in Greece. Savage has taught at The New School for Drama, the New York Film Academy, and New York University Steinhardt. He also contributed two chapters in the Routledge book titled Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training.