First Name
John
Middle Name
Robert
Last Name
Camera
City
Country
State or Province
NY
Job Title
Dramaturg
Biography
JOHN ROBERT CAMERA

Professional actor, educator and dramaturg, director, set design, model building, creating playbills and developing publicity, presenting and writing on a wide range of theatre and acting subjects, developing lesson plans, student assessment guides and protocols.
Education and Training:
Hackley School Traditional Preparatory Curriculum
Columbia University (BFA abd)English, with emphasis in dramatic literature
City University of New York, BA, BS (mcl) Performance
Hunter College, Brooklyn College MFA
Theatre/History, Directing, Dramaturgy
Royal Shakespeare Company Rehearsal and Performance
National Shakespeare Company Rehearsal and Performance

Teaching:
• English Literature, Acting, Program Coordinator, Curriculum Development, Department Financial Planning, Hackley School, Upper School
• Acting, Hunter College
• Shakespeare in Performance, Hunter College
• Acting, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts
• Acting, CSC Conservatory, regional EMC and graduate student programs
• Private studios, teaching using theories from Quintilian and Terence to DelSarte, Ribot and Stanislavski to contemporary teachers, scholars, writers, theorists, novelists, poets and storytellers
Writing:
• DB. A Guide to Grammar, Style and Usage
• An adaptation for radio of A Christmas Carol
• Two plays: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, a contemporary version of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, and Love…or Whatever, a story of loves lost and won in contemporary New York City (with Tina Howe)
• Theatre and Performance in Colonial America
• Brecht: A playwright’s brush with Hollywood
• Rehearsal and Performance: An Actor’s Workbook
• A Players Almanac, an anecdotal history of The Players, theatre and commerce in New York City 1833-1893, Edwin Booth
• Current project: Women of a Certain Age: Feminist, Suffragist, Flapper
Performance:
• Over forty productions of classical, modern and contemporary plays, Broadway, Off-Broadway, leading LORT theatres across the country.
• Five seasons with Obie Award–winning CSC Repertory, the American premières of the complete Peer Gynt, Faust, Richard II, Henry IV, Richard III, Hamlet, King Lear, Frankenstein, Wild Oats, and The Cherry Orchard
• The Pearl Theatre: Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer and the title role in Nathan the Wise, called “both timely and timeless” by the New York Times
• Performed a wide range of other classical and contemporary plays at LORT theatres in Louisville, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St Louis, Buffalo, Baltimore, Boston, and many others. Other People’s Money, Hedda Gabler, The Three Musketeers, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado. . ., Twelfth Night, Tempest, and ten other Shakespeare plays
• Television roles include Lowell Muldoon on All My Children, numerous appearances on Loving for ABC and on specials and series on the Lifetime network
• Film: Two independent features in New York and two major films in Rome (Cinecittà)

John Camera
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Presentations, monographs and papers for MLA and LMDA colloquia and conferences
• Twentieth Century African-American Realism and The African Grove Theatre
• Neoclassicism and Absolute Monarchy
• Ballet and the Neoclassical Ideal in the Court of Louis XIV
• Biensèance in Seventeenth Century France
• Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck: The Wilderness Revisited
• Shakespeare: Ordinary Genius
• Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Intruder: Hidden Reality Symbolic Means
• Robert Wilson: Forward Vision, Backward Glance
• Via negativa: The Work of Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba
• Feasting with Panthers: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Kalidasa: Abhijnana Sakuntalam in Production
Dramaturgy:
• Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet
• The Canterbury Tales
• Euripides, Trojan Women
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Sigh No More Ladies: Selections from Shakespeare
• Karen Sunde, To Moscow ( an adaptation titled Chekhov at the MAT)
• David Ives, All in the Timing
• Lessing, Nathan the Wise
Directing: (A representative listing)
• Fifteen productions of classical and contemporary plays in Los Angeles and New York, and in regional and university theatres.
• Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
• Actors Studio
• CSC Repertory
Los Angeles:
• Mark Taper Forum II. The Black Dahlia
• Theatre 40 – Jeffrey Hatcher, Scotland Road
• Theatre 40 – P.J. Barry, Nantucket Sleighride (praise from The Los Angeles Times and Variety)
Text and dialogue doctor:
• The Actor’s Studio
• Playwrights Horizons
• The WorkShop
• Mark Taper Forum
• Gascon Center Theatre
Memberships:
Actors Equity Association
Drama League
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers in English
The Players
Honors:
CSC Repertory Company “Obie”
Hertz-Henigerr Prize for Academic Excellence, Hunter College
Golden Key International Honour Society
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes