Deep Stealth Productions

Andrea James
Andrea James, 2014
Born	(1967-01-16) January 16, 1967 (age 50)
Occupation	Producer, writer, activist
Website	andreajames.com

Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American trans woman and controversial LGBT rights activist, film producer, director, and blogger. Her views are cited by some activists but contested by others.

James grew up in Indiana and attended Wabash College, an all male school, where she majored in English, Latin, and Greek. After graduating in 1989, she obtained a master's degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. After her MA, James wrote ads for Chicago advertising agencies, working in the business for ten years. The experience encouraged her to become involved in consumer activism, with a particular interest in medical and academic fraud.

In 2003, James co-founded Deep Stealth Productions, with her roommate, author and entertainer Calpernia Addams, to create content by and marketed to transgender people. She hosted an instructional program, Finding Your Female Voice. She produced and performed in the first all-transgender cast of The Vagina Monologues in 2004, debuting a new piece created by Eve Ensler for the occasion. She was also a consultant on and appeared in Beautiful Daughters, a documentary film about the event.

James was a script consultant for Transamerica (2005), helping actress Felicity Huffman prepare for her role as a transsexual woman. She appeared in the HBO documentary Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005), and in 2007 directed a 7-minute film, Casting Pearls. She was a consulting producer for, and appeared in, the reality-dating television series Transamerican Love Story, on the Logo digital channel in 2008. In 2009 she directed another short film, Transproofed.