James Harrison Monaco

James Harrison Monaco tells stories with music. He considers it one of the oldest art forms in the world, and he’s always looking for new and innovative ways to do it. He’s obsessed with stories of travel, translation, immigration, borders, memory, quiet violence, quiet grace, global loneliness, and time. He’s also a translator of Spanish and Italian, a music composer, and he writes prose fiction and non-fiction. He works solo and in a lot of collaborative forms—most notably as one half of the music-storytelling duo Jerome & James (jamesandjerome.org). He’s a New Writer in Residence at Lincoln Center Theater, and he’s received residencies with The Public Theater, The Sundance Institute, BAM, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, New York Theatre Workshop, BRIC, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others. He is currently an Ars Nova-commissioned artist, and this spring, he is teaching forms of experimental music theater at The New School and Yale.

Participating in Live from Mount Olympus as Atlas.