Jim Bigwood
Show business runs in Jim’s DNA. His grand aunt Irene was a lion tamer with the circus in the late 19th century. Jim was bitten by the bug after he trod the stage in his 4th grade play as Aladdin; once he heard the audience laugh at his lines he was hooked.
An Emmy winning audio engineer, Jim was recruited to play several comic characters on radio for both the Jones & West Show on WBAL AM and for Courduff and Lopez on 98 Rock. Jim was also Dan Rodricks' announcer on his nightly radio show on WBAL in the early 1990s.
Throughout the 1980’s, Jim did many commercial voice-overs in Baltimore and Washington. He also played an uncredited police officer in the Warner Bros. movie Meteor Man starring Robert Townsend; Jim was paid handsomely to shave off his mustache for the part.
Jim played four characters in Dan Rodricks’ play, Baltimore Docket but his favorite role was as Boss Polyester in the original run of Baltimore, You Have No Idea. These days Jim can be found in the Control Room at Oriole Park at Camden Yards mixing audio for the fans in the stands during Baltimore Orioles home games.