John Bambery has developed and performed in works at The Metropolitan Opera, Public Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club, La Jolla Playhouse, ACT, ART, Arena Stage, Mosaic Theater Company, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, among others. Highlights include world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames’s TJ LOVES SALLY 4 EVER (NYTimes Critics Pick) at the Jack in Brooklyn, multiple seasons as a fellow and company member at Williamstown Theater Festival developing various works, including collaborations with MASS MoCA, the Clark Museum, photographer Gregory Crewdson, and numerous luminaries of stage and film. Company member of Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC performing in many plays, including US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s world premiere adaptation of WALLENSTEIN as well as a mock trial of Shakespeare’s villains presided over by Justices of the US Supreme Court. Company member at Chautauqua Theater Company. Trained at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music and the Moscow Art Theater School through the National Theater Institute, recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Fellowship at the Juilliard School where he earned an MFA as well as the John Houseman Prize. During the Pandemic while working as a ranch hand at 3 Spear Ranch he took up an Artist Residency at Tickling the Beast in Jackson, WY through a grant from the Center of Wonder where he began developing a performance piece blending art and technology to create immersive, interactive, and interconnected works in partnership with the National Parks Service and the MIT Media Lab. Most recently he completed an artist residency at Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, Fl where he spent two years solely focused on exploring and inhabiting the subconscious dream state of Shakespeare’s Hamlet culminating in a distinctive and lauded production. He is an affiliate of Artist with Evidence (AWE) and a 2025 Satellite Collective Fellow.

Cohort

Études of Emergence

Residency Term

Summer 2025