John is the recipient of an award from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and a Commendation Award from the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Foundation for his work in musical theatre.

This summer, his new musical Myth was developed at the 2008 O'Neill Music Theater Conference, where John received The Georgia Holof Lyricist Award for his work.

With collaborator Tajlei Levis, he wrote Glimpses of the Moon, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, which premiered this January at the Algonquin Hotel in New York where it sold out its run and received rave reviews.

He wrote the score and co-wrote the book to Diva Diaries which ran for three months at the Lakeshore Theatre in Chicago. Before that, it played to packed houses at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and set box office records at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

He wrote the music for A Time to Be Born, based on the novel by Dawn Powell, which played at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and was a hit at the 2006 New York Fringe Festival.

His new musical The Riverhaven Book Club, about an unlikely group of country folk who start a book club to try and improve themselves, was produced last January at the Lyric Theatre in Florida.

He wrote the score for 1001 Nights, the story of a group of abolitionists posing as a traveling theatre company to help runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. It was developed at a workshop at the George Street Theatre and produced at the Lyric Theatre in Florida. His original show A Tailor’s Tale was chosen to be developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference in 1999.

His musical academy, about life at a boy’s prep school, was presented at the Schapiro Theatre at Columbia University.

John is also writing songs for Arturo’s Window, which tells the fascinating true story of John Jerome who embezzled four million dollars to help uninsured people with AIDS as well as support emerging cabaret artists. It will have a reading this winter at the York Theatre.

John has also composed the incidental music to plays and the scores to three ballets including one on which he collaborated with former New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer Miriam Mahdaviani. He has written and illustrated three children’s books. He received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and NYU and was a member of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop.