John is a playwright, director and teacher born, raised and still surviving in Massachusetts.
His Elliot Norton and Weissberger Award nominated Breaking the Shakespeare Code had its professional premiere in Chicago and at the New York Fringe Festival in 2014. He has had work developed and workshopped at the New Repertory Theatre, the New American Playwrights Project, Actors' Repertory Theatre of Vermont and the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, selected three times for the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, for Orange Tea Theatre (Amsterdam), SoBe Arts, IMPACT 15 International Theatre Festival, BARE Essentials and Best of BARE Essentials (London), the Boston Theater Marathon, Short + Sweet (Dubai, Los Angeles, Sydney, Delhi and Queensland), the Snowdance Comedy Festival, Pick of the Vine, Seoul Players (South Korea) and Boston Play Café. His short plays have won the KNOCK International Short Play Competition, the 8-Minute Madness Festival in New York City, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Contest and been selected for City Theatre Miami’s Summer Shorts and Little Fish Pick-of-the-Vine. He was also a winner of the 2014 Nantucket One-Act Play Contest, the 2015 Nor'Eastern Playwrights Contest, the 2015 Seoul Players' Short Play Festival and the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
His work is published by Dramatists Play Service (Outstanding Short Plays, Vol. 4), Applause (Best American Short Plays), Smith & Kraus (Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016, Five-Minute Plays for Performance and Study) and Theatrefolk.
John was a finalist for the 2014 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville and a semifinalist for the 2015 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Two plays devised with high school students have won the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival.
When not writing, John teaches theater, Shakespeare and writing in the Boston area, where he lives with his wife, dance scholar, teacher and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a New Repertory Theatre Next Voices Fellow, a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, Write On/Centastage and the Citywrights playwrights group.
His Elliot Norton and Weissberger Award nominated Breaking the Shakespeare Code had its professional premiere in Chicago and at the New York Fringe Festival in 2014. He has had work developed and workshopped at the New Repertory Theatre, the New American Playwrights Project, Actors' Repertory Theatre of Vermont and the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, selected three times for the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, for Orange Tea Theatre (Amsterdam), SoBe Arts, IMPACT 15 International Theatre Festival, BARE Essentials and Best of BARE Essentials (London), the Boston Theater Marathon, Short + Sweet (Dubai, Los Angeles, Sydney, Delhi and Queensland), the Snowdance Comedy Festival, Pick of the Vine, Seoul Players (South Korea) and Boston Play Café. His short plays have won the KNOCK International Short Play Competition, the 8-Minute Madness Festival in New York City, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Contest and been selected for City Theatre Miami’s Summer Shorts and Little Fish Pick-of-the-Vine. He was also a winner of the 2014 Nantucket One-Act Play Contest, the 2015 Nor'Eastern Playwrights Contest, the 2015 Seoul Players' Short Play Festival and the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
His work is published by Dramatists Play Service (Outstanding Short Plays, Vol. 4), Applause (Best American Short Plays), Smith & Kraus (Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016, Five-Minute Plays for Performance and Study) and Theatrefolk.
John was a finalist for the 2014 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville and a semifinalist for the 2015 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Two plays devised with high school students have won the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival.
When not writing, John teaches theater, Shakespeare and writing in the Boston area, where he lives with his wife, dance scholar, teacher and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a New Repertory Theatre Next Voices Fellow, a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, Write On/Centastage and the Citywrights playwrights group.
