Jay James-Moody

Artistic Director, Squabbalogic

Jay James-Moody is an award-winning actor, director, writer, and producer, is the Artistic Director of acclaimed boutique company Squabbalogic, was a co-founder of Sydney’s prestigious Hayes Theatre Co, and professionally debuted in Jerry Springer The Opera at the Sydney Opera House.

Key recent credits include:

• Standby for Elder Cunningham in the original Australian cast of The Book of Mormon
• An award-winning turn in Hayes Theatre Co’s She Loves Me
• A Cheery Soul for Sydney Theatre Company
• West Side Story for Opera Australia’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour
• And his sell-out, one-man tour-de-force musical Herringbone, which saw him co-direct and play 13 roles over 90 minutes to unanimous acclaim

Directing credits include:

• Herringbone (with Michael Ralph)
• Straight From The Hart
• Bring It On
• The Original Grease
• Grey Gardens
• Hello, Dolly! (with Dean Vince)
• Triassic Parq
• Man Of La Mancha
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Sondheim on Sondheim
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• Carrie
• [title of show] (with Daniel Jacobs)
• Thrill Me
• Forbidden Broadway
• Reefer Madness
• The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Jay has written Straight From The Hart, a solo work for Blake Bowden, and The Day of the Triffids, adapted for the stage from John Wyndham’s novel. He has co-written the book of a musical adaptation of GOOD OMENS (with Vicki Larnach and Jim Hare) based on the best-selling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and conceived and co-wrote with Blake Erickson, the book for The Dismissal: An Extremely Serious Musical Comedy.