John Vreeke

For the past nine years John was based in Washington DC.  He directed the critically acclaimed and Helen Hayes nominated production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at H Street Theater/Forum Theater and Boom for Woolly Mammoth which received four Helen Hayes nominations including director and production.  He and received positive critical notice and an extended run of full houses for his re-invention of Fiddler on the Roof for Olney Theater in Maryland and directed Karen Zacharius’s new children’s play Chasing George Washington for the Family Theater at the Kennedy Center which is currently touring the nation.  He directed the hugely popular production of the K of D by Laura Schellhardt for Woolly Mammoth and Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis which received four Helen Hayes nominations, including director and production.    He has two Helen Hayes Nominations for his adaptation and direction of Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Washington Shakespeare Company which he originally adapted with Mary Machala for Book It Repertory Theater in Seattle in 1997.   While in DC he directed a major production of Homebody/Kabul for Woolly Mammoth and Our Lady of 121st Street at the Kennedy Center, Born Guilty for Theater J which earned him another Helen Hayes nomination, Death and the Maiden, a new novel/play by Joyce Carol Oates, the Tattooed Girl and  the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Bal Masque at Theater J,  a critically acclaimed production of Tiny Alice and Death and the Kings Horseman for WSC, Opus and Red Herring for Everyman Theatre,  Heroes, One Good Marriage and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again at Metro stage, the Monument and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You for H Street Theater. This past season he directed a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull for Theater J in DC and the Caretaker for the Salt Lake Acting Company.  This spring he will direct Gruesome Playground Injuries for Woolly Mammoth. 
Recently he partnered with Tony Curry and Carrie Gibson and Had to Be Productions on the creation of a new touring production about veterans and PTSD called Into The Fire.
During the nineties in Seattle he was the associate producer and casting associate for the CBS TV Series Northern Exposure