Selected Credits

UpstART Theater 

The Poet, An Iliad (co-produced with Thunder River Theatre Company)

Jerry, The Zoo Story;  Alan, The God of Carnage;  Usher/God, Everybody;  Ian, The Other Place;  Trig, Stupid F#*cking Bird;  Josh, Jericho 

No Holds Bard

Hamlet, Macbeth, Iago, Petruchio, Shylock, Malvolio, Leontes

New England Shakespeare Festival

Jacques/LeBeau and Orlando, Richard III, Prospero

Chasm View Productions

Siegfried Sassoon, Not About Heroes

Byers Evans House

Nils Krogstad, A Doll House

Roxy Regional Theater

David, Santaland Diaries;  Doc, Galloway, Phelps et. al., The Laramie Project

Boston Flamenco Ballet

Don Quixote, Don Quixote;  Christian/Valvert, Cyrano

Headshot and resume

Wow! John left it all on the stage tonight with An Iliad. I felt like a child asking the simple question: "What was the war like" and the madness of the Poet who knows of war, trying to tell the story right, trying to capture every human emotion that drives men repeatedly to create the horror... I loved how John disappeared and became the story... I was then watching no storyteller, but the story living before us! And then the Poet would reappear as the storyteller. I remember thinking "How many human emotions am I witnessing right now?" The most human of human cognitive dissonance... being drawn to war, conflict and the drama, yet repulsed at  the horror at the same time.

-Kevin Normoyle, Ouray CO

Kissingford displays Sassoon's curious mix of drollery and principle with aplomb, moving as effortlessly between these traits as he does between the musings of memory, the presence of conversation, and the reverie of verse. His character's shift in attitude toward Owen, from cynic to lifelong friend, is marked by a series of delicate revelations notable for their uncalculated naturalness.

-Bob Bows, Denver Post