Jed Diamond, Clarence Brown Theatre, 2025. When I was in 6th grade a neighborhood lady staged an abridged version of A Christmas Carol with a bunch of local kids. I played Scrooge. I caught pneumonia just after the auditions and was in bed for 2 weeks, but I used the time to memorize the play; so when the Ghost of Christmas Past forgot a line during our performance, I cued her. Fast forward to 1998. I was working at Milwaukee Rep and Joe Hanreddy and I began writing our adapt

I just returned from two months as a Fulbright Specialist in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I was hosted by Ala-Too International University, and gave workshops and presentations for the administration, department heads and numerous classes. This was a kind of homecoming too, since I was a Fulbright Scholar there in 2023. I particularly enjoyed teaching in some new contexts at Ala-Too. First, I was asked to collaborate with two psychotherapists on a seminar in Psychodrama, which was a

Theatre for Living Training, Vancouver, 2025 I've worked in theatre in various roles as a practitioner and an educator. Lately, I've also been exploring new avenues. One of these was a couple of workshops in Theatre of the Oppressed, a form of participatory theatre developed by Brazilian director Augusto Boal in the 1970's as a tool for social and political change. Then I found Theatre for Living, which David Diamond developed from Boal's work. David ran a theatre company in

I spent most of last August in Azerbaijan. I was there to help to run a free summer camp in a in the foothills of the Southern Caucasus...

It's been a while since I've posted an update. Freelance life has it's rhythms and this last stretch has been a period of plans, pitches...

December was pretty full. In Knoxville, my co-adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL played to full houses at the Clarence Brown Theatre. This...

I am delighted that my co-adapation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is being remounted again this year at Clarence Brown Theatre in Knoxville,...

The XI Internacional Festival de Teatro RD is over and EL PANFLETO was a huge success. We had two sold out shows, with a number of added...

I'm back in New York after two weeks in Santiago rehearsing for a remount of my play EL PANFLETO (The Pamphlet) with Coturno Teatro. In...

It's been a while since I posted here. Happily, it’s because I was absorbed this past winter and spring as a Fulbright Scholar in...

It's December and my production of THE TIN WOMAN has just closed at Next Act in Milwaukee. The play was not easy to mount in that space...

My Fulbright in Bishkek is looming on the horizon, and I’ll now also be teaching at the American University of Central Asia. I’ll teach a...

It's been a good summer. In July, I directed a one-man show about Al McGuire. McGuire was a college basketball coach who led Marquette U....

I now have my Fulbright posting for the winter/spring semester of 2023. I'll be at Ala-Too International University in Bishkek, the...

I've received another Fulbright Award. Next year I'll spend nearly 6 months as a Fulbright Scholar teaching at a university in Kyrgyzstan...

Almost unbelievably, it's 2022. I'm hopeful for a terrific year though I imagine it will also have its surprises. Speaking of which, I'm...

I'm in tech for SO YOU CAN LOOK AHEAD at Lamar University. I'm really enjoying the process and thankful to finally see this play...

It's been a while since I posted. Most recently, I directed THREE VIEWINGS by Jeffrey Hatcher at Next Act in Milwaukee. It opened in late...

In 2019, I rewrote a screenplay and did some work as an acting coach with the lead actress for a film that was about to go into...

The pandemic continues but I'm finally directing an actual live show again, more than a year since the last one. It's JOHN McGIVERN, UP...