Associate Vice President, Communications @Wesleyan_U | Prior @CTGLA @LincolnCenter @AMNH | @ColumbiaJourn Alum | Air Force Vet | "Suspected hipster" per @Gawker
Joined September 2008
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May 17
My latest: Having grown up only mostly #Jewish, culturally more than religiously, it wasn't until a brush with antisemitism in the military that I took it more seriously. And it wasn't until my oldest son watched "13: The Musical" that I considered how to handle the parenting side of being Jew-ish. simsjames.com/p/mostly-jew-i… #theatre #religion #arts
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“As UFC fights take center stage in our nation’s capital, the spectacle feels like another reminder of the bro culture and toxic masculinity that sent me running toward Weird Al, Mad magazine, ’80s nerd movies, and musical theatre in the first place.” simsjames.com/p/dare-to-be-w…
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My latest: "Few #parenting pleasures beat discovering your kids have become obsessed with @alyankovic...My kids should be fiercely weird and compassionate. That is the true sense of bravery." simsjames.com/p/dare-to-be-w… #comedians @MADmagazine
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Jun 14
.@ezraklein looks to @ChrisMurphyCT’s commencement speech at @wesleyan_u to explore the real cost of efficiency: “You didn’t design this world. You didn’t choose it. But you will live with the consequences of this cult of efficiency. And you will have to choose which side you are on.” nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opini… #SaveOurBaconAct #FarmBill
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Jun 13
As satisfying it may be to watch the public humiliation of Donald Trump on the eve of his birthday party, the power of this moment is in showing that there are forces that are stronger than him.
Fighting back works.
Jun 13
HERE'S YOUR PHOTO!
How fitting that this ended with yet another shameful cover-up, though.
Perfectly, perfectly Trumpian.
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Jun 13
“If images today have a way of eating up time, keeping our fingers scrolling, Hockney’s works might be said to give it back. Perhaps this is why Hockney’s art can seem both in time and out of it.” theatlantic.com/culture/2026… @TheAtlantic #art #artists
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Jun 13
Live your life so people don’t celebrate when they take your name off things
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Gene Shalit. There was no greater mustache in movie criticism. Loved him. nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-…
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Jun 10
An extraordinary memory, a more extraordinary heart. “Each book of “Paradise Lost” was like a “gothic cathedral,” he said, that he could enter by closing his eyes.
“I’ll tell you,” he added, “it’s very useful at the dentist.” @wesleyan_u nytimes.com/2026/06/09/arts/… via @NYTimes
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Jun 8
Watching @JohnLithgow in #Broadway’s Giant left me asking: “From #HarryPotter to Willy Wonka, what happens when beloved authors turn out to be worse than some of the villainous characters they created?” simsjames.com/p/the-dark-art… #TonyAwards @jk_rowling
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Jun 7
Reasons to look up to @wesley_morris “The man who made “E.T.” was eerily reminiscent of the woman who took me to see “E.T.” Both of them have in common a special intuition to anticipate needs we don’t know we have.” nytimes.com/2026/06/07/magaz… via @NYTimes
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Jun 6
Your annual reminder that the Tonys are spelled just like that: the Tonys. No apostrophe. Just the Tonys. (The Tonys won by Tony Kushner are Tony's Tonys. The Tonys won by Tony Kushner and Tony Shalhoub are Tonys' Tonys.)
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Jun 7
“Everything’s been flattened out. I’ve been looking out at the culture and feeling, like, Where are the Elizabeth Berkleys? Where are people’s voices? I mean, this drives me crazy with singing. Contemporary singing, it’s a tragedy. It’s all “ahh.” No—sing out, sing out. Risk.” newyorker.com/culture/the-ne… @NewYorker #acting
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Jun 4
#PBS is coming back to New Jersey—it’s been overseen by NY’s WNET for years—through an agreement with Montclair State University. “The new contract follows months of uncertainty over the future of NJ PBS and effectively ensures that public television will thrive in New Jersey for the long-term.” montclair.edu/newscenter/202… @montclairstateu @MyNJPBS
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Jun 3
.@wesleyan_u alum Cynthia J. Tong “is not only helping bring new works and voices to Broadway, but she is also helping reshape who gets to be part of the process…It is intentional work. And it begins, as it did years ago for Tong at Wesleyan, with the belief that art is better when more people are invited into the story.” wesleyan.edu/about/news/2026… #AANHPIBroadway #theatre
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.@wesleyan_u President @mroth78 speaking with @nypl president Tony Marx:
“What we really need to do is have a conversation about what an informed citizenry in this country might look like. Libraries play a role. Colleges play a role…learning shouldn’t be a privilege. It should be our birthright in this country.” wesleyan.edu/about/news/2026…
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“Cultural institutions aren’t real estate deals. You can slap a name on a skyscraper. You can’t manufacture cultural legitimacy.” simsjames.com/p/the-kennedy-… #KennedyCenter
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💥NEW WMP report: Past Two Weeks Sees $210 Million in Ad Spending; $20 Million Spent on AI Ads This Cycle
Full report: mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/re…
Report by @tnridout1 @efranklinfowler @mmfranz.
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