James Phillip Gates, a theatre and film director from Essex and then London, has lived in New York City since 2006.

Taking off our clothes; the Jersey Shore of England; James's immigrant status; Bertolt Brecht; working at the Metropolitan Opera; James auditions to be a Real American; intimacy; tantric sex; good little flautists; playing at the Reagan inauguration; Dodge needs a website designer; James's coming out to mum and dad; Dodge's dad had issues; Mainers' unpretentiousness.

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