Electric City Playhouse - Jimmy O. Burdette

Jimmy O. Burdette (Director) has performed in dinner theatres, outdoor dramas and national tours across the U.S.A. He studied at the Burt Reynolds Institute in Jupiter, FL where he performed in numerous shows at the Jupiter Theatre: La Cage aux Folles, 42nd Street, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, etc. He also appeared on 4 episodes of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade with Marilu Henner and Hal Holbrook.

He has performed in numerous shows at the historic Abbeville Opera House: Dracula, Tom Sawyer, Oklahoma, Mister Roberts, Frankenstein, A Summer Remembered, Whose Life Is It Anyway? Jimmy has directed shows all over the upstate: Foxfire, Night of the Living Dead, Sugar Bean Sisters, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, etc. He recently directed these hits at the Electric City Playhouse: Keep On The Sunnyside, Dracula, and Hank Williams: Lost Highway. In the upcoming months he will be directing Showtime at First Baptist, Man of Constant Sorrow, Dixie Swim Club, and The Uninvited.