James McMullan

Born in Tsingtao, Republic of China, where his grandparents had emigrated from Ireland as missionaries for the Anglican Church, he and his mother fled to Canada at the onset of World War II.

After his father was killed in a plane crash, he joined his mother in Shanghai, and the two relocated to Vancouver Island, where he completed his high school education.

He joined the United States Army and served at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where he drew diagrams of where to position propaganda loudspeakers on Sherman tanks.

McMullan's first theatrical poster was for the 1976 production of Comedians at the Music Box Theatre, produced by Alexander H. Cohen, who began to hire him on a regular basis.

[3] André Bishop, the artistic director of the Lincoln Center Theater, has written than "McMullan manages to capture le moment précis of each play, and he does it well in advance of ever having seen the production.