James played Sykes in 'Archers Goon' at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival. The show was performed at the Zoo Venue.

"When Howard Sykes comes home to find a giant thug - the Goon - in the kitchen, life turns upside down. Archer, one of seven siblings who control everything in their town from electricity to the police, has sent the Goon to collect two thousand words Howard's father owes him. Suddenly the Sykes family is caught in the middle of the wizard's battle for power and only Howard can save them !"

Neville's Island was performed at the Harrow Arts Centre in 2002 and sold out on many of the nights.

Four out of condition businessman, sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District, suceed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound by fog, menaced by the wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recrimination, French cricket and sausages. What took place on Neville's Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle management team would ever forget.

"Amazing !"
"The best evening out we've had for years"
"James Preece is a star in the making !"

James appeared in the hugely popular new Speed Dating play at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival.

Review from Three Weeks Daily, 26 August 2005

Ready Steady Date With a subject such as the nasty and awkward world of speed dating, you know you are going to be entertained. From the yappy salary-obsessed New Yorker to the floppy-haired lad about town, each character provides a bag of laughs as pairs are thrown onto a table opposite each other for three long minutes. Well-acted and fast-moving, the piece ends slightly abruptly but not without saying something new about speed-dating (something other than that it is a corporate-lawyer fest!). For a fun outlook on modern-day dating, this is your play.
Rating 4/5