{"id":790451,"date":"2026-07-29T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790451\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:07:10","slug":"project-hail-marys-james-ortiz-signs-with-artists-first-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790451\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Project Hail Mary&#8217;s James Ortiz Signs With Artists First (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/artists-first\/\" id=\"auto-tag_artists-first\" data-tag=\"artists-first\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artists First<\/a> has signed <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-ortiz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-ortiz\" data-tag=\"james-ortiz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Ortiz<\/a>, an actor, designer, performer, playwright and director, for management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOrtiz has made waves recently with his co-lead role of Rocky, the rock alien pal of Ryan Gosling\u2019s Ryland Grace, in Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 hit sci-fi film\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/project-hail-mary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_project-hail-mary\" data-tag=\"project-hail-mary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Hail Mary<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 an adaptation of the Andy Weir novel directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Following a middle school science teacher (Gosling) who finds greatness thrust upon him when he is enlisted to go on an outer space mission for the U.S. government, the film marked a major bright spot at the spring box office, racking up over $683M worldwide, and is now available to stream on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn theatre, Ortiz earned a 2022 Drama Desk Award for his enormous dinosaur puppets from Lincoln Center\u2019s Tony nominated production of\u00a0The Skin of Our Teeth. Additionally, his interpretation of Milky White in the 2022 Broadway revival of\u00a0Into the Woods\u00a0has become a fan favorite.\u00a0Project Hail Mary\u00a0aside, though, Ortiz is probably most known for his Off-Broadway creation,\u00a0The Woodsman, which earned him a 2016 Obie Award for puppet design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOrtiz was the 2017 Eugene O\u2019Neill residency recipient, a 2015 and 2019 Jim Henson Foundation grant awardee, as well as co-founder and co-artistic director of the devised theatre group, Strangemen &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe continues to develop original and adapted works that incorporate his particular blend of theatricality, movement theatre and puppetry and is also repped by CAA and Viewpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Artists First has signed James Ortiz, an actor, designer, performer, playwright and director, for management. Ortiz has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[295978,236,88,240384,155909],"class_list":["post-790451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-artists-first","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-james-ortiz","tag-project-hail-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}