JIM HARRIS-
Manager
Jim has been involved with the Joan Harris Centre for the past twenty-four years. He is the founder of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Theatrical Alliance (NEPTA), a group of nearly thirty regional theaters, college drama departments and area newspapers from across Northeastern Pennsylvania. He also created the Keystone State Dance Festival which brings professional dancers from Broadway and across the nation to our area in the summer to teach a series of dance workshops at a local college. Additionally he founded the Pennsylvania Choreographers Showcase, an event featuring an eclectic mix of works by professional and emerging choreographers from around the state. In addition to working at the studio, Jim is the director of the Harris Conservatory for the Arts in Luzerne. He has appeared in or directed literally hundreds of shows most recently he portrayed the role of Dr. Coppelius in the comic ballet Coppelia. He appeared in the Florida Dance Festival in Tampa and in a series of dance concerts at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach that was sponsored by the Miami Herald newspaper. Jim has written and directed several one act plays as well as directed the biblical musicals Tales of Wonder and Feast Of Life and Smokey Joe’s Café, for The Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre . Broadway Bound, a theatrical production company out of New York City contracted Jim to help stage manage rehearsals for a show they were producing for the luxury liner H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth II. He is a volunteer at Saint Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception as a member of the lay staff. Mr. Harris is a former president of the Back Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce where he won the prestigious Robert Eyerman Award naming him one of the top presidents in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1992 Jim was the recipient of The President‘s Cup, a national award given to him by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Harris served on the boards of the Luzerne County Cultural Task Force, the Cultural Arts Council of Luzerne County and the Wilkes-Barre Cherry Blossom Festival.
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