Jim Speake is an actor/ singer living in New York City. Jim is originally from Alabama. His early years were spent on a cotton farm. He earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia.  After working as a Landscape Architect for the Historic American Building Survey in Washington, DC, he lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia where he was founder and President of Speake Garden Furnishings. This company sold quality garden furniture and accessories to the design trade from a showroom in The Atlanta Decorative Arts Center. While in Atlanta, Jim worked as an actor for several local theater companies including The Atlanta Lyric Theatre. He was also Vice President of the Atlanta Lyric Theatre. In 1996, Jim was one of four "Catfish" in the Opening Ceremonies of The US Olympic Games in Atlanta. 

 

Since moving to New York in 2000, Jim has continued to study acting and voice and has been cast in a number of Off Off Broadway productions in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He has also been in cabaret shows at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT as well as Birdland, The Encore, Don't Tell Mama, the Duplex and The Metropolitan Room in NYC. Jim is on the board of directors of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs and is pleased to have served as the secretary of the organization for four years.