James Clayton

About Me

James D Clayton, MFA

803 Hidden Creek Lane

North Aurora, IL 60542

Cell: 208-596-2578 Home: 630-800-1964

claytonjamesd@gmail.com

Profile

§ Personable collaborator and leader with excellent verbal, written, and listening communication skills.

§ Highly motivated self-starter with ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing situations.

§ Analytical thinker with talent for finding, scrutinizing, and improving issues with a creative bent.

Education

University of Idaho Master of Fine Arts: Theatre Arts, Dramatic Writing 2007

Eastern Oregon University Bachelor of Arts: Theatre Arts 2003

§ Team management: Managed teams of actors, designers, and technical staff.

§ Organization and time management: Created schedules for rehearsals and show builds, optimized actors’ time, structured logistics for backstage processes.

§ Prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines: Established hierarchy of needs, responded to changing essentials appropriately.

§ Team member in collaborative process: Contributed to final product as working part of collegial whole.

§ Creativity and dedication: Devised artistic concepts for shows, worked as director, writer, actor, designer; performed regardless of ailments, concussions and torn meniscus.

§ Problem solving with limited budget: Utilized inventive solutions to overcome obstacles and forward project.

§ Marketing: Designed posters and fliers using Photoshop, Wrote copy and recorded PSAs for radio and print media, implemented guerrilla marketing tactics.

Work History

Retail Sales Associate Music and Arts: Naperville, IL November 2009-Present

Retail Sales Representative T-Mobile: Salem, OR April 2008-August 2009

§ Organizational design: Re-merchandized stores for visual appeal and ease of shopping, systematized filing and storage.

§ Customer service: Provided solutions to customer concerns, built rapport to ensure continued customer satisfaction and retention.

Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Idaho: Moscow, ID January 2005-June 2007

§ Instruction: Designed and developed curriculum; led lectures, discussions, instructional activities.

§ Advising: Counseled students in courses to enroll in to meet educational objectives and graduation requirements.

§ Tutoring: Served as writing tutor specific to film courses, led group study sessions.

§ New media: Operated digital and analogue media players, learned to use new technologies.

Supervisor/Projectionist La Grande Theaters: La Grande, OR May 2001-June 2003

§ Leadership: Oversaw 2-3 workers per shift, assigned daily duties, mediated conflicts.

§ Training: Trained new employees in policies and procedures.

Office Support EOU Career Center: La Grande, OR Sept 1998-June 2000

§ Office Equipment and Systems: Filing, typewriter, computers, 10-key, copy, fax, multi-line phones.

Other Skills

§ Spanish: Speak, read, write.

§ Computers and Programs: Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, internet browsers, Finale, Sibelius, Mac and PC.

§ Cash register, Point of Sale systems.

My Interests

Theatre Arts, Film, Latin America, music, logging, forestry, education, technology, collaboration.