Jamie Wax

Jamie Wax recently made his Broadway debut as a playwright with the extended run of Call Me Izzy starring Jean Smart. He began his diverse career by touring as a stand-up comic in his teens. He went on to perform his acclaimed solo shows throughout the country. With composer Paul Taranto he created the musical Evangeline, seen nationally on PBS. They went on to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant to create Passages, which also became an award-winning television special. Acting roles include Puck for director Barry Kyle of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Charles Thompson in Wine Lovers in New York and tour, Toy in Guns for the Mark Taper Forum, and creative consulting and acting in Soul Doctor at New York Theater Workshop. He was the inaugural playwright-in-residence for the Hanover Theatre Repertory in Massachusetts, where he developed his newest play, High Risk Ward. An Emmy-winning journalist, he has been a contributing correspondent for CBS News for over a decade. He and his family split their time between New York and New Orleans.