Teacher Biographies

James Coomber

James Coomber is a music theatre artist living and working in Vancouver.  He has collaborated as a composer, musical director, conductor, musician, sound designer and actor throughout the theatre and music community.  He received an Honours BFA in Music as well as a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University.  Some recent credits include:  Homecoming King (Thirty Below Theatre), A Truck Full of Chickens (Theatre Terrific), The Bread Project (Theatre Terrific), The Little Mountain Mountaineers (Genus Theatre), Waiting for Go. (Theatre Terrific), Twelfth Night (Shadows and Dreams Theatre), 4H Club (Genus Theatre).  He recently participated in one of Nightswimming Theatre's Pure Research projects, where he investigated spaces between singing and speaking with fellow researchers Susanna Uchatius, Trevor O'Rourke, and Kieran Naugler.  He continues to explore the intermingling of disciplines, studying new approaches to music theatre, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and music pedagogy for non-musicians.