James Ortiz is a director, performer and designer who has been lucky enough to create puppetry all over the world. His Milky White for the Broadway revival of Into the Woods as well as his dinosaurs from Lincoln Center’s The Skin of Our Teeth have become fan favorites and tattoos! Most recently: El Niño (Metropolitan Opera) Wrinkle in Time (Arena Stage) Three Houses (Signature Theatre), Disney’s Hercules (Papermill Playhouse, Neue Flora Hamburg), Poor Yella Rednecks (ACT SF), Candide (Skylight Music Theatre), Kiss my Aztec (Hartford Stage).

Additional credits include: The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, City Center, the MUNY, Carnegie Melon, Dallas Theatre Center, Yale Rep, Theatre for a New Audience, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Ars Nova, and New World Stages. 2022 Drama Desk winner for his designs in Skin of our Teeth. 2016 OBIE winner for puppetry design for his off-Broadway creation, The Woodsman. American Theatre magazine of “Six Theatre Workers you Should Know” in 2020. 2022 Drama Desk winner for Skin of our Teeth. James’s original Milky White puppet can now be found on display at the Museum of Broadway.

Upcoming: Lincoln in the Bardo (Met Opera) and the film Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling (Amazon MGM Studios)