James came to Australia to attend the John Bolton theatre school in 1997, upon graduating he and two other graduates formed "The 4 Noels" Theatre Company. The trio have been devising and performing their unique style of comic theatre all over Australia and New Zealand and at the Edinburgh Festival ever since.
Their smash hit from the 1999 Melbourne International Festival "The Magnificent Seventeen" has been regularly performed in schools across Melbourne and country Victoria. James also teaches as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival class clown project.