In his forty-year career John has directed over 150 professional theatre productions. Mostrecently for Barter Theatre: COUNTRY GIRLS and I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS in 2023 and IT’SA WONDERFUL LIFE in 2022; KENTUCKY SPRING in April of 2022 and FRANKENSTEIN in 2021.Other productions directed: HAMLET, OTHELLO and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR atNebraska Shakespeare, and elsewhere: ANTIGONE, HENRY V, TARTUFFE, MACBETH, MAN OFLA MANCHA, THE MIKADO, AMEDEUS among others. As an actor John recently play Bob Ewellin Barter’s production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and has been privileged to play many of thegreat roles at various theatres including Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT, Jacques in AS YOU LIKEIT, Tom Wingfield in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Hamlet, Macbeth, Fred/Young Scrooge in ACHRISTMAS CAROL (Off-Broadway), Teach in AMERICAN BUFFALO and others. John starred inthe award-winning feature film, DEAD BILLY and co-wrote (with Rick McVey), the feature film,THIS WORLD. As a playwright John has had over 300 productions of fifteen plays producedaround the globe. John tours two one-man plays throughout the country: RATTLESNAKE, anoriginal play in which he plays sixteen characters, and a one-man adaptation of A CHRISTMASCAROL in which he plays forty-three characters. In 1993, John co-founded The Barter PlayerCompany, one of his proudest achievements. BA: East Tennessee; MFA: Alabama; Ph.D.: TexasTech.