Tripp served as the Head of Acting and Master Teacher at the Stella Adler Studio and taught at other prestigious institutions around the world, including the Universidade Moderna in Libson, Portugal, and the Stage School in Hamburg, Germany. He loved every minute of it.īut his happiest years were those he spent as a teacher and mentor to young actors, truly an epic second act to a life in the theatre. He worked with artists such as Jean Renoir, Arvin Brown, John Houseman, and Ellis Raab. His numerous directing accolades included, You Can’t Take It With You and Relatively Speaking (San Diego’s Old Globe) As You Like It (Camden Shakespeare) and The Misanthrope, Cloud 9, and The Cripple of Inishmaan (NOLA Project New Orleans Theatre). He taught at the New Orleans Center for Cultural Affairs (NOCCA). Tripp received a National Endowment for the Arts Special Project Theatre Grant with Joan Evans. His television credits include PBS’s The Adam Chronicles and the hit series Spin City. On Broadway, he was featured in Hamlet, The Cocktail Party, and Cock-A-Doodle Dandy. His acting career included leading roles in Shakespearian and classical plays for the New York Shakespeare Festival, the San Diego National Shakespeare Festival, the Great Lakes Theater Festival, and over 20 productions at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre. The great love of his life, Peter Coffield, predeceased him.Ī graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he went straight from school to the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and worked continually in classical repertory as a young man.

He leaves behind a beloved sister, Jenny Tripp, a niece, Cordelia Baker, a nephew, Peter Garibaldi, and a host of devoted friends and beloved colleagues.

Son of the late Ruth (Dickinson)Tripp and Arley Tripp, he was born on Apin Centralia, Illinois, and was forever grateful that his parents relocated to South San Francisco, California after the War. James Tripp, actor and teacher, shuffled off this mortal coil on October 27, in New York City. Donor will be acknowledged with a VIP sponsor listing name plate in the studio's lobby and on the studio's website.Īll of the above + donor will be invited to the VIP ribbon cutting of the James Tripp Theater at the Stella Adler Studio's new facility on lower Broadway.Īll of the above + donor will underwrite the tuition of one student in the Summer Shakespeare program and receive access to previously unreleased video footage of Jimmy teaching and/or talking about acting.Īll of the above + donor will be invited to a special evening at the opera, Jimmy's favorite pastime, with staff and faculty.

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