Ensemble Bios

James Pendarves

Mr James Pendarves returns for his second season with the Shaw Festival in Present Laughter and Come Back, Little Sheba. James made his Canadian theatre debut last season, appearing in Ferenc Molnár’s The President and Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish – A Comedy.

James grew up in Somerset, UK, and graduated from London’s Central School of Speech and Drama in 2008. British theatre credits include Accidental Death of an Anarchist, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Visit (CSSD), The Common Good (ICA), The Railway Children, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (& Co. Theatre, Bristol) and Boufon Le Grand in A Guest for Dinner – a devised show in collaboration with Punch Drunk Theatre Company.

Film/TV credits include The Jean Charles de Menezes Story (ITV), Mug Shot (short film) and Dual Suspects (Cineflix).