About
James Sie is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, and novelist born on December 18, 1962, in Summit, New Jersey. Raised in a bicultural household (Chinese father, Italian mother), he attended Northwestern University. From 1985 to 1997, he was an Artistic Associate at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, where he wrote stage adaptations, including Island of the Blue Dolphins, which received a Joseph Jefferson Award Citation in 1995. Relocating to Los Angeles, he built a prolific voice-acting career, voicing Jackie Chan and the villain Shendu in Jackie Chan Adventures, Master Monkey in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, the Cabbage Merchant in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Eddy Raja in the Uncharted video game series.
* 1962-12-18
Major works
- Still Life Las Vegas (2015)novel
- All Kinds of Other (2021)novel
- Island of the Blue Dolphinsstage adaptation
- Talking With My Handssolo show
Key milestones
- 1995Receives a Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work for Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- 2000Begins voicing Jackie Chan and Shendu in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures.
- 2008Marries singer-songwriter Douglas Wood.
Themes
Cultural identityFamilySecretsSexual orientationSelf-discovery
Sources: lifelinetheatre.com · search.worldcat.org