Founder • Artistic Director • Technical Director • Lighting Designer

James E. Carter has spent more than four decades making live performance work — as a lighting designer, director, writer, production stage manager, and technical director across Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, concerts, and film.

His theater credits include Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, Smokey Joe’s Café, Mama I Want to Sing, and Sophisticated Ladies. He has designed and managed touring productions for Usher, Monica, Faith Evans, Zhané, and SWV, and worked at the Apollo Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Billie Holiday Theatre, PIX11, and Good Morning America at ABC — where his work earned a 2016–2017 Emmy Award. He is also an AUDELCO Award winner for Best Lighting Design, with additional recognition in cinematography and documentary film.

• Emmy Award — 2016–2017, Good Morning America (ABC)
• Broadway & Off-Broadway — Director, Lighting Designer, Production Stage Manager
• Lighting Design — Designer, Programmer, Special Effects, Lighting Director
• Film & Television — Cinematographer, Technical Director, Production Support
• Concert Production — Touring, Stage Management, Production Lighting, Live Events

Creative Ensemble Company, Inc. — Manhattan, New York

He founded Creative Ensemble Company to build the thing he had spent a career serving: a place where new plays get full productions, and where the artists making them get paid, credited, and seen.

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