John is a 2019-2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing.
His plays have been presented in New York by Circle Rep, Urban Stages, Hey Jonte!, and Shelter West. He has had new plays developed and workshopped at the New Repertory Theatre, the New American Playwrights Project, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Actors' Repertory Theatre of Vermont, Dayton Playhouse, 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.
He was a winner of the 2019 Clauder Competition, a finalist for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Lark Playwrights' Week, a finalist for the 2014 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a 2015 O'Neill semifinalist.
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 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017.
John's work is published by Dramatists Play Service (Outstanding Short Plays, Vol. 4--upcoming), Applause (Best American Short Plays 2015-2016), Smith & Kraus (Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016, Five-Minute Plays for Performance and Study), and Theatrefolk.
Two plays John devised with high school students were overall winners of the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival. He is currently on the faculty of the Hanover Conservatory for the Performing Arts.
John lives in the Boston area with his wife, the dance scholar, teacher, and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England and a member of StageSource, Write On, Writers at Play, Far and Wide Playwrights, and the Citywrights group.
His plays have been presented in New York by Circle Rep, Urban Stages, Hey Jonte!, and Shelter West. He has had new plays developed and workshopped at the New Repertory Theatre, the New American Playwrights Project, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Actors' Repertory Theatre of Vermont, Dayton Playhouse, 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.
He was a winner of the 2019 Clauder Competition, a finalist for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Lark Playwrights' Week, a finalist for the 2014 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a 2015 O'Neill semifinalist.
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 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017.
John's work is published by Dramatists Play Service (Outstanding Short Plays, Vol. 4--upcoming), Applause (Best American Short Plays 2015-2016), Smith & Kraus (Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016, Five-Minute Plays for Performance and Study), and Theatrefolk.
Two plays John devised with high school students were overall winners of the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival. He is currently on the faculty of the Hanover Conservatory for the Performing Arts.
John lives in the Boston area with his wife, the dance scholar, teacher, and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England and a member of StageSource, Write On, Writers at Play, Far and Wide Playwrights, and the Citywrights group.
