Jim Mahady 
Stage Director

Shaker Mountain welcomes Stage Director, Jim Mahady, for his third season. Mr. Mahady received his degree in Theatre Arts from Northwestern University, and also trained extensively at The Acting Studio in New York City. He has been singing and acting professionally since his debut in 1971 in The Me Nobody Knows at Buffalo's Studio Arena, and was most recently seen in New York City as Feste in Chelsea Rep's Twelfth Night.

From his years in Los Angeles, Jim has several principal TV credits, and his stage work in NYC and regionally includes Times Square Angel opposite Charles Busch, Pacific Overtures, She Loves Me and Stonewall: Night Variations, directed by Tina Landau. Musical highlights include appearances with Miami Opera, Milwaukee's Skylight Opera Theatre and the Vienna Staatsoper, where in 1986 he sang in Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place, conducted by Bernstein himself.

Since 1996 he has taught acting and for two seasons was producer/director of Chelsea Rep Lab in NYC, where he directed plays by Christopher Durang, Donald Margulies and William Inge. Now a resident of Washington DC, Jim is the Drama teacher at Georgetown Day High School and an adjunct professor in the School of Music at Catholic University. For Shaker Mountain, he has directed Manon, Norma, Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica and Carousel.