Comrade Apparatchik is a suspenseful dark comedy following Lev Bandin, a former Soviet naval programmer turned American TV ad broker who retreats to an isolated lakeside cabin.
Jim Stowell is a weaver of exquisite skills who draws distinct and disparate threads into a tapestry vibrant with the colors of politics, history and personal regret.
The story of a Texas marijuana smugger talking, sort of confessing, to his best friend by talking to the camera.
Stowell is a citizen of the world in the best sense. When he journeyed to Norther Ireland, he stayed in the heart of the action in one of Belfast’s most dangerous Catholic neighborhoods. That’s the way he operates wherever he goes: Live within the culture—get to know the characters who exists in the service of the plays ultimate, overwhelming question: Where does hope come from?
2004. Produced by The History Theater. Directed by Richard Thompson. Shot live at The History Theater. It’s an invitation for its audiences to choose idealism over cynicism, nurturing over exploiting and generosity over parsimony.
Jim worked 16 seasons as a Park Ranger in three National Parks. He takes you to different places than most National Park stories. Comedy, death and magic in our National Parks.
Produced by The Jungle Theatre, directed by Paul Draper. Rio Bravo! Rio Grande! is Stowell at his best. He blends the arts of writing and performing into a unique and powerful evening of theater. One word describes it all: Bravo! 1994.
“Working with nothing but an empty black stage and a table, Stowell’s performance was miraculous, pure and simple.”
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
This evening was my, ‘Out of town show’ before I took these stories to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. Stories about traveling in Central America, growing up in Texas ten miles from the border of Mexico and working as a National Park Ranger, living on an island in Lake Superior and working and living in a lighthouse.
"Talking Pictures is an emotional roller coaster, as unpredictable as the mountain bus trip Stowell vividly describes. And though it’s only Stowell talking, you’ll swear you saw pictures.”
THE GREEN FUSE is an adventure tale of a journey Jim Stowell took with his wife into Brazil’s Amazon Basin. It’s all jungles, wetlands, heat, humidity and Third World complexities. This is Stowell’s most poetic and beautiful show yet, and ultimately one of his most touching.
Jim Stowell shares an unforgettable moment of triumph that reminds him of the everyday "miracles of wow" he was privileged to witness as a Park Ranger.
Based on Tim O'Brien's remarkable book from 1990, this one-man show inventories the memories a Vietnam War veteran carries through life.
"The set comprises nothing but a picnic table, an ice chest, and a few trees, but Jim Stowell manages to paint an imaginative world so lucid that the stage itself is almost incidental. The real show happens inside your mind.”
Jim Stowell recounts the trip to the Amazon River basin that nearly turned tragic. This show is part adventure, part confession. This is theater at its best, full of truth, power and commitment.
A story about the power of storytelling. A story about the power of love and a story about the power of the lighthouse tower.