Jim Findlay


Disciplines: Theatre – playwriting, Theatre – performance
Disciplines: Theatre – playwriting, Theatre – performance
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2012, 2016

Jim Findlay's most recent theater works have focused on plants, sleeping, and communicating with the dead. Findlay received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award in 2015 and a Creative Captial award in 2016. He worked on Electric Lucifer, a theatrical and musical fantasia about torture, isolation, and transcendence. It is a collaboration with the ghost of Bruce Haack, the original composer of The Electric Lucifer, released by Columbia Records in 1970.

Studios

Mansfield

Jim Findlay worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…

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