Jim Wann biography

COASTAL COHORT JIM WANN

     A 1970 graduate of  UNC Chapel Hill’s Creative Writing Program, Jim Wann is co-author (with Bland Simpson) of Off-Broadway’s Diamond Studs: The Life Of Jesse James, A Saloon Musical; and of King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running: Songs And Stories of the Carolina Coast (with Bland Simpson, Don Dixon, and J.L. Mills), the show that created the Coastal Cohorts, now in its 22nd year of battling the ubiquitous Greedhead Development Corporation, most often in Carteret County.
     Jim is also principal author/composer of Pump Boys And Dinettes, recently optioned for a Broadway revival. His work has been nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, Olivier and NAACP Awards. A new musical comedy, The People vs. Mona (co-author, Patricia Miller) will have its New York premiere July 14, 2007, www.groundupproductions.org.
     As a singer, Jim has recorded an album of Johnny Mercer songs and an album of original songs, under the banner Pardon My Southern Accent, produced by Don Dixon, along with Wild Ponies, the new Coastal Cohorts CD on the Creekmore label, www.jimwann.com. CDs also available at Cohorts shows, itunes and other download sites, and coastal retailers courtesy of Salty Shores Distribution.
     For the past couple of years Jim has been host of Farmers’ Almanac TV, a PBS lifestyle show broadcast nationally and on the WUNC-TV system, www.farmersalmanactv.com. Home is Columbia County, NY and Tybee Island, GA, with wife Patricia, two silly little dogs and a cat so big he just barely squeezed into this bio.