James Glossman has directed over 200 plays, for professional theatres and educational programs across the United States, including works of Shakespeare, Shaw, Miller, Mamet, Beckett, Shepard, Pinter, Stoppard, Friel, Fugard, Sondheim, Goldman, Wilson, Williams, Wilde, and Wilder, as well as new plays by emerging and established playwrights. 

He is a graduate of Northwestern University, The American Conservatory Theatre, the British American Drama Academy (at Balliol College Oxford), and The Yale School of Drama (MFA).  Glossman has been a member of the Theatre faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and at St Ann’s School in Brooklyn; and has taught and directed as a member of the Theatre Arts and Studies Program at Johns Hopkins for over a dozen years.