John comes aboard the good ship Lobster to direct Killing My Lobster Takes a Cruise (Spring 2006).

Directing credits include: The west coast premiere of Nicky Silver’s Beautiful Child for Theatre Rhinoceros; Donald Currie’s Sex & Mayhem, Patrick Wilde’s What’s Wrong with Angry?, and Steve Kluger’s After Dark for The New Conservatory Theatre Center; Nicky Silver’s The Maiden’s Prayer and Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes (named as one of the best casts of 2003 by the SF Bay Guardian) for San Francisco StageWorks; Maltby and Shire’s Baby and Testify: Real People and Religion for Studio A.C.T. which he also wrote; Uncle Dickie’s Wicked Little Christmas 1 & 2 for TANTA Productions; and James McLure’s Laundry and Bourbon.

He has directed studio productions of Wendy MacLeod’s Sin, Richard Greenberg’s The Author’s Voice, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, Nicky Silver’s Raised in Captivity, and his own adaptation of the Orestes/Electra myth called A House Divided. As an assistant director, John has worked with B.D. Wong, Michael Khan and Walter Dallas during McCarter Theatre Center’s annual new play festival in Princeton, New Jersey.

As a Company Manager, John has worked for the Tony Award winning McCarter Theatre Center and the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater. During his time as a Company Manager, he worked with artists such as Mary Alice, Robert Brill, Betty Buckley, Nilo Cruz, Olympia Dukakis, Gloria Foster, Elizabeth Franz, Athol Fugard, Randy Graff, John Michael Higgins, Susan Hilferty, Mark Nelson, Cynthia Nixon, Joyce Carol Oates, Denis O’Hare, Wendy Wasserstein, B.D. Wong, and Doug Wright.

Acting credits include: JF, The Director in the award winning Medea, The Musical for Theatre Rhinoceros; Ralph in Awake and Sing; Lloyd in Reckless; Kafka in Who All Killed Cock Robin?; Betty and Edward in Cloud Nine; King Pandion in The Love of the Nightingale; Silvius in As You Like It; Trinculo in The Tempest; Apollo in a Suzuki Method production of Orestes; and The Archbishop Anger Stickletwat in The Queen’s Rain, which performed to sold-out houses in the 2001 San Francisco Fringe Festival and later toured to San Diego. Most recently, John acted along side Olympia Dukakis in the independent film, Right Spot, Wrong Time.

John has also worked as a costumer with Central City Opera in Colorado, McCarter Theater Center, and The Washington Opera in Washington, D.C; and as a stage manager for The Opera Festival of New Jersey and the Spoleto International Arts Festival.

John received his degree in Theater and minor in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where he graduated with honors and was a scholarship recipient from the Liberace Foundation for the Performing Arts.

As an acting teacher, John has been on the faculty of the Studio A.C.T. program at the American Conservatory Theater.