Jim Hoskins has had a multi-faceted career that has taken him from Ciro's in Hollywood; to Nouvelle Eve in Paris; to the Upstairs at the Downstairs in New York City. Mr. Hoskins began his career as a dancer in Mae West's nightclub act and has performed, directed and choreographed in educational theatre, television, film, the corporate theatre, opera, nightclubs and the legitimate theatre. He has staged over 400 productions in this country and abroad. He taught period movement and dance in both the undergraduate and graduate programs as Penn State University and the graduate program at Florida State University. Between 1969 and the present he directed and/or choreographed over 70 productions for the Asolo Theatre in Florida (where he choreographed a production of Syncopation last spring). Mr. Hoskins resides in Sarasota where he is a professor of theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. (2003)