John is a playwright, director, and teacher born, raised and still surviving in Massachusetts. His plays have been presented in New York by Circle Repertory Company, Hey Jonte!, and Shelter West. He has had new plays developed and workshopped at the New Repertory Theatre, the New American Playwrights Project, 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.
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.
His 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.
John is a finalist for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and was a finalist for the Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2014.
Two plays devised with high school students won the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival.
John lives in the Boston area with his wife, the dance scholar, teacher, and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, Write On, and the Citywrights playwrights group.
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.
His 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.
John is a finalist for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and was a finalist for the Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2014.
Two plays devised with high school students won the 110+ school Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival.
John lives in the Boston area with his wife, the dance scholar, teacher, and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, Write On, and the Citywrights playwrights group.
