Jim Dalglish

JIM DALGLISH is a playwright, director, filmmaker, and producer with more than 30 plays and films to his credit. These works have been produced and screened around the world and have won awards in New York, Boston, London, and Dublin. A few of his plays have been anthologized in best play collections.

Jim has directed more than two dozen theatrical productions, five of which he also independently produced. He has been employed by a variety of theaters in New England as a managing director, marketing director, and box office manager.

Jim has a master’s degree in creative writing/ playwriting from Brown University. His thesis advisor was Paula Vogel.

When he isn’t busy writing, directing, or producing plays and films, he and his husband Rob Phelps enjoy sailing Delphina – their 17-foot O’Day Daysailer – along the sheltered harbors of New England.

Read more about Jim at www.jimdalglish.com.

“The Black Eye,” part of “Quickies: 4 short plays from Provincetown,” The Art House & The Red Room, Provincetown 2022, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2022

“Teacher of the Year,” feature film • Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2022

“Pilgrim Girl” A short film, Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival, Worcester, MA, Sept. 23, 2023, Location: WICN Radio

“A Talented Woman” -co-written with Lynda Sturner, Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2019.

“Dark Tales Told on a Cold Autumn Eve,” Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2018

“Lines in the Sand” The Jewel Box Theater at the WorkShop Theater, New York, NY, 2017

“Super-Lubricated” by Jim Dalglish & Lynda Sturner, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Dublin, Ireland, May, 2016

“Unsafe,” Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, 4/30/2016 - 5/10/2016, Boston Public Works, Plaza Theater of the Boston Center for the Arts, 5/14/2016 - 5/30/2016

“A Talented Woman,” McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ, July, 2014, Staged Reading

“Bark Park: life from both ends of the lead” Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, August, 2014

“Three Pillows,” Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, BrainSpunk Theatre, New York, NY1/11/2012 - 1/15/2012

For a complete list of productions: https://www.jimdalglish.com/productions

Teacher of the Year - Best Experimental Feature Film 2023 - Massachusetts Independent Film Festival

The Playground - Runner Up, 2022 Kaplan Playwright Competition

The Babysitter - Best Dramatic Short Screenplay, Woods Hole Film Festival, 2022.

The Black Eye - Best Play (Finalist), International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2022.

Teacher of the Year - Official Selection, Film Fest International London, 2021

Teacher of the Year - Filmfest International London, finalist: Best Feature Film, Best Actress (Miranda Jonté) WINNER!, Bests Director (Jim Dalglish, Best Set

Lines in the Sand – 2017 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Nominee: Best New Play (Jim Dalglish), Best Aspect of Production (Jackie Reeves), Winner: Best Actor (Tony Travostino & Nick Bucchianeri)

Lines in the Sand – 2017 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards, Winner: Best Original Concept of a Play

Unsafe – Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) 2007 Award Finalists: Best New Play (Jim Dalglish), Best Actress (Anna Botsford), Promising Young Performer (Natalia & Alexandra Tsourides)

Super-Lubricated – 2016 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Best Actress (Lynda Sturner)

A Talented Woman – The Jeremiah Kaplan New Play Prize ($1,000) Eventide Arts, Dennis, MA

A Talented Woman – (Collaboration with Lynda Sturner) Semifinalist, 2013 National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut

Unsafe – Semifinalist, 2008 National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut

The Shaving Lesson – Best Play, Tidewater Play Contest 2003– Audience Choice Award, 2006 Turnip Play Festival, Globe Theater, New York

Daughter of the Regiment – Panelist’s Choice Award, 2002 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theater Festival

The Black Eye – Best Short Play, 2001 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theater Festival

Edge – Finalist, Tennessee Williams National One Act Play Contest

For a complete list of awards: https://www.jimdalglish.com/play-awards

The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors 2006, Smith & Kraus Publishers (“Double D”)

Amsterdam Quarterly 2013 Yearbook (“The Black Eye”)

“(“Unsafe” is)…raw and lovely and exquisitely written and acted… Jim Dalglish directs his play with relentless efficiency, bringing his vision to riveting life… a powerful evening of theater. Be brave. Check it out.” - Kilian Melloy, Edge Media Boston

"The play’s (“Unsafe”) structure is brilliantly conceived, with fantastical sequences and elements blending in with the action... It is rich with metaphor, drama, high action and pathos. This is an ambitious, intelligent and intriguing evening of theater.... A word about the acting: superb."- Carol Panasci, Cape Cod Times

“… a string of surprise twists transform the play (“Lines in the Sand”) from an intense, unnerving mystery to an equally intense but ultimately moving drama… the story is engaging, with terrific performances… The play takes place over a period of less than 24 hours, and packs a wallop… By intermission on this particular night, several members of the audience seemed visibly overwhelmed… it is worth seeing for its unforgiving look at complicated people in extraordinary circumstances, and for the food for thought it offers the audience about bullying, self-judgment, trust and mistakes.” - Kay Keough, The Inquirer and Mirror.

"The Black Eye” by Jim Dalglish follows an ageing cruiser whose indulgence in every variety of sexual pleasure has sated his libido to the point of expiry. A chance encounter with a straight youngster tempts him to try out a new thrill, the conversion-seduction, but at the critical moment he deliberately sabotages his own efforts, knowing that even this novel excitement will leave him dissatisfied. The play has the feel of lived experience intelligently analysed and transfused with marvellous clarity into a dramatic lament on the perils of sexual anhedonia. This is a universal human topic which has provoked comment from three of the last century’s foremost sages. Beckett: ‘Habit is a great deadener.’ Stoppard: ‘What free love is free of is love.’ Lemmy: ‘If you get hit on the skull with a hammer at 7 every morning you eventually get used to it.’" - Lloyd Evans, reviewing the London production, Voices of Reason, Spectator.

For a complete set of reviews visit https://www.jimdalglish.com

Cotuit Center for the Arts (playwright, producer, filmmaker)

Eventide Theater Company (Playwrights, ETC. playwrights lab coordinator)

Neighborhood Playhouse (NYC) playwrights lab

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (Managing Director, Marketing Director)

The Provincetown Theater (Marketing Director, Box Office Manager)

The Provincetown Playwrights Lab (Founding Member)

Director of UX Research & Strategy, OHO Interactive (Clients include Harvard, Yale, Columbia University, Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc.)

Sr. Editor / Executive Producer, Houghton Miffilin