James Bohnen is the owner of Arcadia Books in Spring Green, WI. He is also a freelance theater director who works most summers at American Players Theatre in Spring Green. At APT he has directed plays by Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Tom Stoppard, among others. He was the founding Artistic Director of Remy Bumppo Theatre in Chicago and ran the theatre for fifteen seasons. From 1990 to 1995 he served as Artistic Advisor to Carol Lowenstern for Aspen Theater in the Park.