John Mossman has directed, written and produced numerous award-winning films, documentaries and videos. His feature film Into The Wake, received several Best of Fests and a Best Director award. He is also recipient of the Best Director Award from the Midwest Independent Film Festival for his work on the short film Jell-Ohh Lady, which screened at the Los Angeles DGA and Egyptian Theater as part of the American Cinematheque Series, and the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival where it won Audience Favorite. His short Draggage was awarded a Lagniappe Award at The New Orleans Film Festival, Best of Fest at the 40th Annual Rochester Film Festival, and was judged "best no budget film of the year" at the Palm Springs Film Fest. The short featurette Spaceman Dan’s 243rd Flight has screened at numerous international fests, where it received Best of Fest, Audience Favorite and a Kodak Opportunity Award. He has won two Telly Awards as a director, most recently for the documentary There's No Such Thing As Crazy, also winner of a Voice Award for its thoughtful portrayal of teens struggling with mental illness. He is currently in preproduction for an upcoming feature.
As coordinator of South Side Filmmaking Youth Initiative he has overseen the production of many short films written, produced and directed by south side Chicago students, two of which won national Emmy Awards in the High School Television category.
He is co-founder of The Artistic Home, a theater and training program for actors and directors in Chicago, where he recently directed the acclaimed revival of Requiem For A Heavyweight (nominated for 7 Jeff Awards and winner of Best Director, Best Production, Best Lead Performance and Sound Design) as well as Les Parents Terribles, Juno and the Paycock, Look Homeward, Angel, Natural Affection and Clash By Night, among others. He is an acting instructor at The Artistic Home, directed The Shadow Of A Gunman at Seanachai Theater, for which he was named a Best Director of the Year by WBEZ. His adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess was the first ever stage adaptation of a Chayefsky screenplay, earning a Jeff Award.
As an actor he has appeared at numerous theaters throughout the United States, as well as in film and on television, receiving Jeff Award nominations for his performances in How I Learned To Drive and Peer Gynt, and winning the Chicago Stage Talk Award for Best Performance by an Actor. He has performed at Steppenwolf Theater, Lakeside Shakespeare Theater, Seanachai Theater and most recently was featured as Peck in How I Learned To Drive, in the title role of the Artistic Home's acclaimed production of Macbeth, as Leontes in The Winter's Tale at Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre, and as Atticus Finch at Oak Park Festival Theater's To Kill A Mockingbird, which broke theater attendance records.
He has worked as an instructor and artistic collaborator on projects in Thailand and Ireland, is a film directing instructor at Columbia College and the Harold Ramis Film School, and teaches acting classes at The Artistic Home. He has served on the boards of IFP – Chicago and The Artistic Home Theater, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received degrees in Film and Theater.
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As coordinator of South Side Filmmaking Youth Initiative he has overseen the production of many short films written, produced and directed by south side Chicago students, two of which won national Emmy Awards in the High School Television category.
He is co-founder of The Artistic Home, a theater and training program for actors and directors in Chicago, where he recently directed the acclaimed revival of Requiem For A Heavyweight (nominated for 7 Jeff Awards and winner of Best Director, Best Production, Best Lead Performance and Sound Design) as well as Les Parents Terribles, Juno and the Paycock, Look Homeward, Angel, Natural Affection and Clash By Night, among others. He is an acting instructor at The Artistic Home, directed The Shadow Of A Gunman at Seanachai Theater, for which he was named a Best Director of the Year by WBEZ. His adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess was the first ever stage adaptation of a Chayefsky screenplay, earning a Jeff Award.
As an actor he has appeared at numerous theaters throughout the United States, as well as in film and on television, receiving Jeff Award nominations for his performances in How I Learned To Drive and Peer Gynt, and winning the Chicago Stage Talk Award for Best Performance by an Actor. He has performed at Steppenwolf Theater, Lakeside Shakespeare Theater, Seanachai Theater and most recently was featured as Peck in How I Learned To Drive, in the title role of the Artistic Home's acclaimed production of Macbeth, as Leontes in The Winter's Tale at Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre, and as Atticus Finch at Oak Park Festival Theater's To Kill A Mockingbird, which broke theater attendance records.
He has worked as an instructor and artistic collaborator on projects in Thailand and Ireland, is a film directing instructor at Columbia College and the Harold Ramis Film School, and teaches acting classes at The Artistic Home. He has served on the boards of IFP – Chicago and The Artistic Home Theater, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received degrees in Film and Theater.
[email protected]
630-247-7049