John’s plays have been produced and commissioned at theaters such as Center Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Fest, and off-Broadway at Urban Stages. He was a writer and lead story-editor on the PBS mini-series BrainWorks: The Theatre of Neuroscience, which can be seen on a PBS.org. Awards: Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award, and the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre. A proud alum of New Dramatists in NYC, John currently is head of the M.F.A. Playwriting Program @ University of Arkansas.