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James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. [1] .
Jim Sharman. Director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- March 12, 1945
- Jim Sharman
Nov 7, 2015 · Jim Sharman is going through a bit of a time warp. Sharman, 70, is a celebrated theater and opera director in his native Australia with dozens of productions to his credit.
- Writer
Jim Sharman. Director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966.
- March 12, 1945
James "Jim" Sharman is a director and writer for film and stage with over 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, but is probably best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror ...
Jim Sharman, the son of a boxing-tent entrepreneur, who spent so much of his childhood around travelling sideshows, vaudeville and circus entertainment, shows here his natural instinct for participatory spectacle – and for how it must be reinvented with each new generation.
A director and writer whose work traverses stage and screen, including opera and musicals, JIM has created over 80 productions, many of which had a transformative effect in Australia and internationally.
