UVA MFA Professional Actor Training Program

James Stringer Jr.

James Stringer Jr., born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, is no stranger to hard work. While pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of Louisville, James was working the third shift to put himself through school. His most common response to the question, “when do you sleep?” was, “I don’t sleep, I take naps.” Since graduating from Louisville, James has toured children’s theatre, completed an internship at the Cincinnati Playhouse, participated in historical re-tellings, been cast in multiple Shakespeare productions, dabbled in experimental and immersive theatre, and is now finishing his MFA program in Acting at the University of Virginia. If you had told him he would have done all that back when he was a teenager, he wouldn’t have believed you. James would like to thank his ever-supportive family, his mentor and professors that gave him a chance, his friends who would wake him up in morning classes when he would be dozing off after working so late, and everyone else who had a hand in him getting to this point. James would not be here without every single person he has come across on his journey and is grateful to all of them.