JOHN VREEKE
       e-mail
        .     NEW WORKS - Works in Progress
  . click the title for individual pages
  

    9th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS / VILLAGE THEATRE
                   Issaquah/Seattle, WA 
                    2009                                                        Take Me America
                                                                                        (by Nabel and Christianson)

    THE KENNEDY CENTER
                   Washington, DC 
                    2008                                                       New MFA National Playwrights Festival
                                                                                      

    SOURCE FESTIVAL / CHARTER THEATRE
                   Washington, DC 
                    2008                                                        This Perfect World
                                                                                       (by Chris Stezin)

    THE KENNEDY CENTER FAMILY THEATRE
                   Washington, DC 
                    2008                                                        Chasing George Washington
                                                                                       (A new musical for young audiences-
                                                                                         by Karen Zacharius & composed by Wicks LaPuma)

    WOOLLY MAMMOTH
                   Washington, DC 
                    2008                                                        The K of D
                                                                                       (by Laura Schlessinger)

    DC SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL and METRO STAGE
                   Washington, DC 
                    2007                                                        Shakespeare's Will
                                                                                      

    THEATRE J
                   Washington, DC 
                    2007                                                        Ariel Sharon Hovers Between Life and Death
                                                                                        and Dreams of Theordore Herzl
                                                                                       (Workshop for the Fringe Festival & Theatre J;
                                                                                           By David Zelnick)

    THEATRE J
                   Washington, DC                             World Premieres:
                  2005-2006                                                Bal Masque  (by Richard Greenberg)
                                                                                      The Tattooed Girl  (by Joyce Carol Oates)

     ARENA STAGE,  ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE,
        SIGNATURE THEATRE,  THEATRE J
                   Washington, DC 
                  2002-2004                                                (Directed Reading of New Plays)

      ARTSWEST PLAYHOUSE
                   Seattle, WA 
                  2000                                                          The Collaborators  (new play by Stephen Price)

      KENNEDY CENTER: NEW VISIONS/NEW VOICES
                   Washington, DC 
                    1998                                                        The Dream Thief   (Robert Schenkkan) 

      INTIMAN THEATRE
                   Seattle, WA 
                  1998                                                          The Dream Thief   (workshop reading)

      FIRST STAGE 
                   Milwaukee, WI 
                   1998                                                         The Dream Thief   (World Premiere) 

      A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE:  FIRST STAGE
                   Seattle, WA 
                  1998                                                          Louis Slotin Sonata   (Paul Mullins) 

      ALICE B. THEATRE
                   Seattle, WA                       Literary Manager 
                  1989-1990 

     ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE 
                   Little Rock, AR 
                   1987-1989                        Literary Manager 
                                                                   Devised and Directed: 
                                                                                     Thematically onnected Shakespeare Scenes 
                                                                                        for the Arkansas Arts-In-Education Tour 

     NEW YORK STATE THEATRE INSTITUTE 
                  Troy, NY 
                 1985, 1997                             Adapted for Theatre: 
                                                                                     A Little Princess 
                                                                                     The Canterville Ghost 
                                                                                     The Prince and the Pauper 

     ALLEY THEATRE 
                  Houston, TX                   Literary Manager 
                  1981-1985                         Monday Night New Play Reading Series 
                                                                   Workshop Developed Productions: 
                                                                                     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 
                                                                                     Heidi 
                                                                                     Tales of the Arabian Nights