James A. Goins is a modern-day Renaissance man renowned for his inventive and musically sensitive direction of Theatre, Musicals, and Film. Credits include Of Mice and Men, Jesus Christ Superstar, Raisin in the Sun, Taming of the Shrew, Equus, 12 Angry Jurors and Proof. His works have been produced at the Mark Taper Forum Annex, Laity Theatre Company, New Musicals, Inc. and Chameleon Theatre Circle. He is a member of BMI, Dramatists Guild of America, American Composers Forum, Playwrights Center, National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., Composers Diversity Collective, Theatre West, Society of Composers & Lyricist and American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. James is also Executive Director of the Laity Institute of the Arts, a Private Arts Foundation that teaches children and adults the visual and performing arts, and an accomplished film and theatre composer and writer.