John J. Caswell Jr.

John is the Founding Artistic Director of Progressive Theatre Workshop and the author of several original works for the stage, including SHOTS: A Love Story, closet.drama: a homo/hetero collision, Britney Spears for President, Eat Your Peas/DIE DIE DIE, Banksy's Bodies, and My Friend the Serial Killer by Ronald Rogers, Sixth Grade. His play Arrangements was named a top-10 finalist for the 2013 Woodward Newman Drama Award. He is the recipient of awards from organizations such as P.A.V.E. (as funded by the Kauffman Foundation) and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. John has spent time learning from pioneers of American theater, including Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Circle Repertory founder Marshall W. Mason, and Ontological Hysteric Theater Founder and MacArthur Genius Richard Foreman. John studied performance at Arizona State University, and in 2011, his SHOTS: A Love Story was published as part of Johnny Saldaña's award-winning text Ethnotheatre: Research From Page to Stage by Left Coast Press.