Philanthropy
Volunteer art, music and performance for children’s charities through the Peter Pan Project, and for causes across Las Vegas, from the LGBTQ+ community to Opportunity Village.
- 3roles for the Peter Pan Project: illustrator, singer and actor
- 5children’s charities have received donated copies of Peter and Tink
- 4Las Vegas causes supported through the Imperial Court
The Peter Pan Project
J.M. Barrie gave the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London’s children’s hospital, in 1929. James Presley’s Peter Pan Project, a musical and a storybook drawn from Barrie’s original writings, raises money and books for children’s charities. All of this work was volunteered.
Peter and TinkAdapted from the writings of Sir James M. Barrie
Original illustrations for James Presley’s storybook about Peter Pan’s earliest adventures, drawn from Barrie’s The Little White Bird and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with a foreword by Margaret Kerry, Disney’s original Tinker Bell model. Book sales pay for more copies, which are donated to organizations serving children and families. Recipients have included Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, Give Kids The World Village, Toby Keith’s OK Kids Korral, Buddy Cruise and the Awareness Foundation’s Inner City Slickers.
Peter Pan’s Magical World of Neverland
On stage at the musical’s 2019 premiere in Las Vegas, staged as a fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, and two songs recorded for its audiobook.
Las Vegas community
Imperial Royal Sovereign Court of the Desert Empire, Inc.
Served the 2023 Reign as Mr. Big Bold Bear, under the name Darius Morningstar, in support of the community. Performances and contributions for the Imperial Court, a Las Vegas nonprofit that raises money for local charities, supported displaced gay and trans youth, free public wellness screenings, The LGBTQ+ Center of Las Vegas and the Sin Sity Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Ghostbusters of Las Vegas
A volunteer Ghostbusters costume team that appears free of charge to help Las Vegas charities, including Opportunity Village and the Salvation Army. Suited up with the team at Opportunity Village’s HallOVeen at the Magical Forest in 2016, a fundraiser for its work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
