For the past 20 years he has concentrated on developing new plays and designing sets for many World Premieres by playwrights such as Octavio Solis, Adam Bock, Erin Cressida Wilson, Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka, Greg Sarris, Mark Jackson, Yussef El Guindi, Loretta Grecco, José Rivera, Carl Djerassi, Dave Eggers, Philip Kan Gotanda, Kevin Fisher, Jessica Hagedorn, Teresa Walsh, Luis Saguar, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas and Zayd Dohrn.
Faerron's striking set uses two rows of tall, late-summer-tasseled cornstalks to suggest vast fields, with a two-tiered, nightmarishly skewed farmhouse growing out of the opposite wall.
The crazy-angled upper porch, with its antique rocker, is the aerie from which crude, menacing, hawk-eyed family patriarch Thomas Arn (John Robb) surveys his domain.
In the third act, a no-frills Texas motel.” “Psychos Never Dream” San Francisco Weekly – “James Faerron has built an ideal split-level set, with crisp town scenes on top and disordered farm scenes below...” San Francisco Chronicle – “...as James Faerron's inventively versatile set – beautifully used by Larson throughout – unfolds to reveal a stunningly shoddy ranch interior...” “Five Flights” Curtain Up – “James Faerron's abstract set manages to accommodate it all, including some modest projections to announce the "scenes" and a locker room encounter that creates a mini-hockey match with an empty shampoo bottle retrieved from an off-stage shower.” San Francisco Chronicle – “Everything rises on an updraft with the script.
"” “Soul of a Whore” San Francisco Chronicle – “Masha's, John's and HT's lives continue to intertwine with Jenks' as the action moves from bus station to intensive care unit to death row, each location beautifully suggested by shifts of the concrete-like, structural frames of James Faerron's set and changes in Jim Cave's architectural lights and Drew Yerys' ambient sound effects.” “June in a Box” San Francisco Chronicle – “Composer Beth Custer and accordionist Isabel Douglass strike up an engaging corrido, framed in an odd trapezoid window in the patchwork junkyard wall of James Faerron's striking set.” “Stairway to Heaven” Oakland Tribune – “....she cooks elaborate meals in a dingy apartment (the wonderfully stained, crumbling set is by James Faerron) and dictates her eloquent, poetic memories to Mickey, a possible junkie, who scribbles it all into a notebook.”