in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and earned his MFA in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is now based.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University[5] and former co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
[7] His adaptation of Hamlet, titled Fat Ham, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022 after premiering as a "digital production" at the Wilma in 2021.
He received his BA in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his MFA in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times noted that "Mr. Ijames's play has no sense of an ending, or of resolution.