James Barniker

Mr. Barniker is a playwright with learning differences. He was trained as an actor at Main Street Theater and Dance Alliance in New York City, He began playwriting career at the age of 14 at the Suggestion of his H.S. English teacher. Recently he has just graduated From Saint Francis College, Brooklyn New York. With a B.A. in Performance Studies . Where he concentrated on Drama and Playwrighting. While there he completed he wrote his first play. TWENTYSOMETHINGS. As part of his studies, he spent his 2012 fall semester in London under Florida State University’s Drama Program where his emphasis was playwriting where he studies under the tutelage of Mark Wheatley Director of Florida State Universites Playwrighting Programme London. While there he wrote Red Hoodie Dairies or Xpert which examines the life of a student with disabilities and began working on Mind The Gap (formally) The Terrorists He has been interviewed on N.P.R. and the B.B.C. He supports a number of charities specifically for people with learning differences.