James Asmus
James Asmus is a writer, actor and comedian originally from Cleveland Ohio. He has been affiliated with such theaters as "The Annoyance" [1] and the sketch group Hey You Millionaires.
Career
Playwright
Asmus has written several plays for both the Annoyance Theater and The New Colony theater group in Chicago. The plays he has written include Love Is Dead (The Annoyance), Hearts Full of Blood (the New Colony) and Amelia Earhart Jungle Princes (The New Colony). Both Love is Dead and Hearts Full of Blood have been featured at the New York Fringe Fest, winning awards for Outstanding Music & Lyrics[2] and Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting[3] respectively.
Comic books
Asmus is currently employed as a writer for Marvel Comics,[1] writing such comics as Dark X-Men, The Runaways, X-Men: Manifest Destiny and Generation Hope
Awards and nominations
- Theater Awards
- 2008 Fringe NYC Outstanding Music & Lyrics - Love Is Dead: a NecRomantic Musical Comedy
- 2008 After Dark Awards Outstanding Original Score - Love Is Dead: a NecRomantic Musical Comedy
- 2009 Chicago Readers' Choice Best Emerging Playwright[4]
- 2010 Fringe NYC Overall Excellence in Playwrighting - Hearts Full of Blood
Bibliography
Comics
- Marvel Comics
- X-Men
- X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1, 4 (#1 Boom Boom story; #3 Nightcrawler story, 2008)
- X-Men: Manifest Destiny - Nightcrawler #1 (with pencils by Jorge Molina and Adrian Syaf, 2008)
- Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (Mimic story, pencils by Jesse Delperdang, 2009)
- Nation X #1 (Nightcrawler & Wolverine story, art by Mike Allred, 2009)
- X-Men vs. Vampires #1 (Husk story, art by Tom Raney, 2010)
- Wolverine #900 (first story only, with co-writer C. B. Cebulski pencils by David Finch (comics), 2010)
- Deadpool Team-Up #890 (pencils by Micah Gunnell, 2010)
- X-Men: Serve and Protect #1, 4 (#1 Emma Frost story only; #4 Psylocke story, 2010)
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #3 (pencils by Nicholas Bradshaw, 2011)
- Generation Hope #13-
- Other Marvel
- Runaways Vol. 3 #10 (with co-writer Christopher Yost and art by Sara Pichelli & Emma Rios, Marvel Comics, 2009)
- Steve Rogers: Super Soldier Annual #1 (pencils by Ibraim Roberson, 2011)
- Namor: The First Mutant Annual #1 (pencils by Max Fiumara, 2011)
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