John is a playwright from Arizona, a recent fellow at Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, and the recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at the Vineyard Theatre. 

His play Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons + MCC) won the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award as well as the Obie Award for its creative team and director, Dustin Wills. It was the most nominated play of the 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards and took home the prize for Best Scenic and Projection designs. Wet Brain also received nods from the Outer Critics Circle, The Drama League, and Relentless Award. 

Other plays include Man Cave (Obie for Direction by Taylor Reynolds) and Scene Partners (Obie for Performances by Dianne Wiest and Johanna Day).

Additional honors include the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, the Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, a SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency, and the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship.

Previously (2007-2017) he produced and created devised performances using in-process text on queer themes with PTW, his non-profit theatre group, presenting both in Phoenix and NYC shows including CREAM!, God Hates This Show: Shirley Phelps-Roper in Concert Live from Hell, and SHOTS: A Love Story.

Education: Juilliard School, Hunter College, Arizona State University.

Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival.