Troilus and Cressida

Antaeus member since 1991. At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, The Malcontent, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Pedrolino & The Hanky of Doom, The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute, and The Wood Demon.  ClassicFest: Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Lucky Chance, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, Penny For A Song, Collaborators. He is a master teacher of commedia dell’Arte, which he studied under the late Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. LA theater: The Capulets & The Montagues, The Importance of Being Ernest (LAWS); The Arsonists (LA  Weekly  nominee); Fafalo!, Golden  State (Dell’Arte); Master  Class (Mark Taper); La Bête, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight Frenzy and productions at The Powerhouse, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theatre (S.F.). Film & TV: Almost Broadway, Born Yesterday, Book of Love, Night of the Comet, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Days of Our Lives, McBride, Lazarus Man, Quantum Leap, and the role of Don Kipper on CBS’ Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. John also teaches workshops in commedia dell’Arte with Studio Zanni & the Antaeus Academy, and various classes at Santa Monica Emeritus College and the University of Redlands.

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).