James T. Majewski

James T. Majewski is an American actor and director based in New York City, with over 15 years of professional experience in theater, film, voiceover, and performance art, and a strong ongoing practice in the development of new theatrical works.

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James is Creative Director of the Catholic arts non-profit, Arthouse2B, and President of the Catholic Artist Connection. He is Vice President of Trinity Communications, which advances the Catholic faith in media through its website, CatholicCulture.org. James is narrator of Catholic Culture Audiobooks, which has produced over 180 unique audiobook releases, and co-host of Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, which has published over 120 in-depth ​film discussions and reviews.

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Notable acting credits include roles in several plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, and others; extensive experience in immersive arts performance, including at Hauser & Wirth LA; frequent collaboration with artists across varied disciplines, including as Founder and Head of Studio Child, the resident theatrical studio of Arthouse2B; and appearances at Fringe festivals both internationally and across the United States, including at Capital Fringe (Washington, DC), Hollywood Fringe Festival, and a month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Most recently, James directed and performed in an original translation of Karol Wojtyla's The Jeweler's Shop, with text newly adapted by James and his wife, Karina Majewski. After a sold-out run of performances in 2024, the production was remounted in 2025 in the historic Chancelor Green Rotunda at Princeton, sponsored by Princeton's The Aquinas Institute.​​

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James directed and developed the new one-act drama, Arranged, by Karina Majewski, first performing alongside his wife in the two-person play and later leading a fresh cast and creative team in a remount production at the Upper West Side off-Broadway theater, Theatre 71.

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James performed in and co-directed Ruah: Breath of Life, an interdisciplinary immersive art performance conceived and co-directed by visual artist Erin K. McAtee The performance integrated original artwork, poetry, dance, music, and theater (see review by First Things), and featured an original theatrical work devised by James and Karina which has since performed in other venues.

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James' original one-man show, Magnificat, is a theatrical adaptation of the 20th-century French poet Paul Claudel's Great Odes, using the new English translation from Jonathan Geltner, published by Angelico Press.

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​​James was an Artistic Associate with the DC-based Brave Spirits Theatre, with which James performed in several plays, including the first professional production in nearly 400 years of the Jacobean revenge tragedy, The Bloody Banquet. This production was the subject of the scholarly work "The Bloody Banquet in Performance" published by Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture.​

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​James has engaged in artistic residencies abroad, including at Site de pratiques théâtrales in Lavauzelle, France, as well as at the Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego in Wroclaw, Poland—first with Galiana & Nikolchev’s The Useless Room and later with the actors of Teatr ZAR.

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James received his MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and earned his BA in Philosophy summa cum laude from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH. He lives in New York City with his wife and three young sons.