JD Sasser

James was born in Japan, grew up in West Germany, and has traveled and performed in over thirty 
countries on four continents. He has appeared on Broadway as the singer for “Riverdance”, and as 
Pilate in the tour of “Jesus Christ Superstar”. He was in the original off-broadway casts of “Suburb”, 
Jerry Herman’s “Showtune”, and the New York cast of “Forbidden Broadway:SVU”. Most recently he 
performed with the New York City Opera as Healy in the VOX festival’s presentation of “Charlie 
Crosses the Nation”. He has been involved in the development of over two dozen new theatre 
works with such organizations as the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Eugene O'Neill Center, The 
Vineyard Theatre, NYU-Tisch Graduate Writer's Program, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, to
name a few. James is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, has a certificate from the Royal 
Academy in London, and is a Frank H. Buck Scholar. He can be heard on the RCA album 'Infinite Joy' 
by William Finn, and in numerous voiceovers and commercials across the United States including 
spots for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and INMTV. He has performed as a soloist with the Glenn 
Miller Band, the Barry Levitt Trio, Skitch Henderson and the NY Pops, the Band of the Golden Gate, 
the Air Force Headquarters USAFE band in Europe, and many others. James is the lyricist and 
co-author of the musical "First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers" with Lt. Col. James Dilda (USAF-ret.),
which was the official musical selection for the Celebration of the Centennial of Flight in 2003. He is also the
book writer and music supervisor for the new Alice Cooper rock musical “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell”. His 
newest piece, “Hell’s Kitchen Requiem”, about the notorious Hell’s Kitchen Irish-American gang in the 
1970’s known as the Westies, had its first developmental reading in early June at the Algonquin Theatre 
in New York.