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1. Directing 2. New Works 3. Theatre for Young Audiences 4. Educational Programs 5. Television 6. References and Education . |
 Nov.
3rd-30th
at Woolly MammothBOOM
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company must have fun sorting through the latest
batch of weird, because they've unearthed a grandly wacked-out
apocalypse fantasy in Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's "Boom".
This is
boy-meets-girl stuff that's not just twisted, but gleefully torqued. Jules
is a lonely marine biology grad student who's just placed a racy
personal ad online; Jo is the randy journalism major who's answered the
call. Yet Jules is oddly reluctant, and the offbeat, high-strung Jo
keeps passing out as she tries to leave his strange biology
lab-cum-dorm room.Oh, and there's a crazy lady on a balcony, who's overhead pulling levers and occasionally talking to us like a "Twilight Zone" version of the Stage Manager in "Our Town." That is enough to send director John Vreeke and his inspired team heavenward... MORE: Washington Post Review * City Paper |
 City Paper 2008 Year In ReviewThe Last Days of Judas Iscariot Stephen Adly Guirgis's play placed in a courtroom in present-day purgatory, the Bible's greatest and most unexplained villain is on trial. Both comedic and touching, Guirgis' play asks us if we are capable of true forgiveness and real compassion. MORE "Director John Vreeke is a master at restraining and astutely illuminating verbose plays, and this is perhaps his most satisfying effort, a production that probes the intellect, prickles the conscience and ignites the soul." - Washington Times "It should not astonish you to discover that John Vreeke directs this production. Whenever a play delivers a powerful emotional message - be it The K of D at Woolly Mammoth, or Bal Masque at Theater J, - we seem to find Vreeke’s hand at the helm. He has done his customary excellent work here." - DC Theatre Scene "...John Vreeke’s superb ensemble: I saw you in that thrillingly written, urgently performed, crassly funny, somehow heartbreaking play last week, and damn if you didn’t actually make a critic cry." - Washington City Paper "John Vreeke seems at his best when directing plays with strong intellectual questions at their core..." "Clearly, he's no stranger to intellectual theater." - Potomac Stages "Forum Theatre's exhilarating production of "The Last Days of Judas Isacariot", a preposterously entertaining play..." - Washington Post  Played to Sold Out Performances - Re-Opens at H Street Playhouse in December! |
| Recently Staged Productions |
 Drunk
EnoughTo Say I Love You . On one level a dissection of a dysfunctional relationship, Drunk Enough is also an incisive look at U.S. foreign policy and the seduction of power. The perfect play to reexamine our nation's place in the world as we enter this pivotal election season. MORE INFORMATION October 11th –
November
2nd at the H Street Playhouse
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 Sept
12- October 11thCharter Theatre kicks off it's 9th season with This Perfect World A powerful new play by Chris Stezin. The play examines the free-floating anxiety that has characterized America since 9/11 – specifically, its impact on one insurance company office drone whose life is coming undone by the increasing uncertainties of everyday life and his own personal weaknesses. MORE INFORMATION "Vreeke, who directed two of last year’s best shows, 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot' and 'The K of D', lends his characteristic interpretive grace to the production." - DC Theatre Scene Review "...vivid but often fantastical and contradictory disaster imagery piles up, accounting for the soft-spoken style with quick-flaring intensity that Lott uses to tell the tale....the impressive part of the show is how cogently Lott and director John Vreeke chart those patterns. - Washington Post In part due to the pacing that John Vreeke's direction gives to the performance, the short evening is never less than interesting and often it rises far above that level. - Potomac Stages |
JOHN
- E-MAIL |
 Nominated for THREE Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Director Born Guilty
Lady Chatterley's Lover Chinese Elvis |
| OTHER PROJECTS:
Conducted
on-going Acting for Camera Workshops and Scene Study Workshops for "The
Workshop" at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company---
Resident
Director for ART with the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
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Manager of the Washington Theatre
Legacy Project - the education outreach program for the Helen
Hayes Awards Society.
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RECENTLY:  ---
In August
2008, directed the student ensemble at the National Conservatory of
Dramatic Art in: "Escape
From Happiness"
 August
8th - 17th, 2008
Directed World Premiere of:
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Directed
the annual benefit gala for the Imagination Stage. 10/13/07---
Wrote and
produced a video tribute
for Francis Sternhagen at the annual Helen Hayes Awards ceremony.
4/16/07---
Stage
Director for "Jazz in Our Time"
in the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center, a gala and ceremony to
honor 40 of the country's greatest Jazz Musicians and Artists. 3/3/07. ---
Directed "Shakespeare's Will", a
new play, at the Canadian Embassy for the 2007 Shakespeare in
Washington Festival.
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 The
Last Days of Judas IscariotStephen Adly Guirgis's play is placed in a courtroom in present-day purgatory, the Bible's most unexplained villain is put on trial. [TWO RUNS] |
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 Chasing
George WashingtonDee Dee, Jose, and Annie accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life--turning their tour into an adventure. |
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 Martha,
Josie & The Chinese ElvisA British dominatrix and her unconventional family and friends realize the meaning of the Feast of Epiphany. |
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 Bal
Masque Three unusual couples survive Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball and are forced to face reality. |
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 Drunk
Enough To SayI Love You The intriguing dissection of a dysfunctional relationship, while also an incisive look at U.S. foreign policy and the seduction of power. |
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 The K of DAfter a car accident kills her twin brother, young Charlotte becomes a fascination to others when it appears she has received an eerie power. |
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 Opus A world famous String Quartet deals with the loss of a member as they prepare an all important performance for the White House. |
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 Death
& The King's Horseman Part Shakespearean, part Greek Tragedy, a folk tale of ritual suicide in British Colonial Nigeria. |
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 This
Perfect World A powerful new play by Chris Stezin, examining the free- floating anxiety that has characterized America since the 9/11 events. |
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 Fiddler
On The RoofThe story about a struggle of a people to survive, to live, and to be at home, and how a belief system creates and also destroys life. |
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 The
MonumentA grieving mother of a daughter raped & murdered by a young soldier convicted of multiple war crimes are brought together. |
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 For
The Pleasure of Seeing
Her AgainThe loving memoir of a gay son’s mother, as they help each other through formative life events. |
 The
Tattooed Girl Joyce Carol Oates’s story of the relationship between an anti-semetic coke-head street girl and her growing love for an ailing Jewish professor. |
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 Homebody/
Kabul Kushner’s epic drama of Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of a troubled British family in search of a mother who has mysteriously vanished in the country. |
 Death & The Maiden Ariel Dorfman’s statement of world wide oppression seen through the eyes of three people intimately involved in the Chilean dictatorship and the resulting reign of terror.   Medea, The Musical A satirical musical fantasy about a gay man mysteriously falling in love with his leading lady in a musical production of Medea. |
 Our Lady
of 121st Street The 15 year reunion of an extraordinary mix of Spanish Harlem school friends as they grieve the death & disappearance of the Sister who raised and taught them. |
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 Lady
Chatterley's LoverDH Lawrence’s most popular story of the privileged Lady Chatterley’s love affair with the Games Keeper and the affect on her marriage to the wheelchair bound Clifford Chatterley. |
 Born Guilty
Second and third generation children of Nazi’s and how they deal with their guilt as seen through the eyes of Jewish author, Peter Sichrovsky, from his novel of the same name.  Helen Hayes Awards Show Directed the 19th Annual Helen Hayes Awards show at the Concert Hall in the Kenedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
 One Good Marriage A couple returning from their honeymoon are shocked to find that all of the guests at their wedding are missing. |
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 Red Herring A McCarthy era satire about how three couples, including Joseph McCarthey’s daughter, a young Jewish scientist, a Russian defector and a detective all find each other. |
 Tiny Alice Edward Albee’s epic surreal, mind-bending story of a priest and his descent into the difficult, mysterious and even tantalizing failure of his faith.  Gala
Event:"Jazz In Our Time" Stage Director for “Jazz in Our Time” in the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center…a gala extravaganza and ceremony to honor 40 of this countrys greatest Jazz Musicians. |
Educational Programs Television Adapted Plays on Audio Books