Birth Place: Queens, NY
JOHN C. HUME (he/him/his) is a Brooklyn-based theater artist. He is a director, actor, cabaret performer, puppeteer, designer, and writer with a background in non-profit arts management. His directing work has been presented at Dixon Place, La MaMa E.T.C., The Secret Theatre, and Treehouse Theater. He has created and performed over a dozen cabaret shows, which have been presented at Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Triad, The Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, and The Duplex. His acting work has been seen at HERE Arts Center, Bowery Poetry Club, Dixon Place, The Secret Theatre, and most recently, in APAC’s virtual presentation of Cyndi William’s American Arcana. BFA: Sarah Lawrence College.
Cabaret shows: John Hume and Friends Go to the Movies! (The Green Room 42, March 2024), A John Hume and Friends Love Letter to Broadway (The Green Room 42, February 2023), The Michelle Kwan Tribute Show (The Green Room 42, June 2022), A John Hume and Friends Miracle on 72nd Street (The Triad, December 2021), The First Annual John Hume and Friends Holiday Telethon: Benefitting the Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC, December 2020); A John Hume and Friends Christmas Carol, An Evening with John Hume and Mila Henry, #I’mWithRipsey, #RipseyResists (Feinstein’s/54 Below); 7STAGES (The Metropolitan Room); The Boys You Know (Don’t Tell Mama); John Hume Live: With Danny Katz On Piano, John Hume and Friends, John Hume and Friends THE SEQUEL!, John Hume’s The Joy Of Gay Sex, John Hume and Mila Henry…Together Again, John Hume and Friends Sing CATS! A Fundraiser for GMHC’s AIDS WALK 2013, John Hume and Friends Christmas Around the World, The John Hume and Friends 1940s Christmas Radio Hour (all at The Duplex); The John Hume and Friends Christmas Spectacular (with Femme Fatale Theater) at The Secret Theater, Queens NY and The East 13th Street Theater, NYC. Femme Fatale Theater: Vera, or The Nihilists, The Bacchae, Oscar Wilde’s Salome. APAC’s virtual presentation of Cyndi William’s American Arcana. Other theater: Eschaton Cabaret (Bowery Poetry Club and Dixon Place), Group, a new play by Daniel McCoy. Directing: Strange Folk, a new play by Dane Jerabek (Dixon Place); The Marble Helen (La MaMa E.T.C.); The Therapist and the Young Man (The Secret Theater and the Treehouse Theater). BFA: Sarah Lawrence College. Conservatory: The British American Dramatics Academy.
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