John Snow
Music at the Odyssey Curator and Musical Director
John Snow is a professional actor, director, and musician/music director living in Los Angeles after years living in New York. As an actor, John has recently performed onstage in LA, New York, and regionally in plays including Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words II, Loyalties, Moonchildren, Jersey Boys, Dutch Masters (both in LA and New Jersey), Tuesdays with Morrie, and numerous original works with actors such as Bill Irwin, Ethan Phillips, Mary Joan Negro, John Fleck, Arye Gross, Tony Abatemarco, and others. John was recently nominated for best supporting actor in Broadway World for his work in the two hander Dutch Masters at Cape May Stage. John is grateful for the training he has received from acting stage legends such as Mary Lou Rosato, Tony Giordano, Mary Joan Negro, and others. As a musician and music director, John has had the honor and privilege of performing throughout the world with artists such as Patrice Rushen, Tony Nominee Kathryn Gallagher, India Carney, numerous New York jazz musicians, playing in the pit of WICKED on Broadway, and performing at venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, and The Blue Note NYC. John hosted, music directed, and was the director for the highly reviewed shows of “Celebration of Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein”, “Celebration of Nina Simone”, “American Folk Revival” “Celebration of Bob Dylan”, “Laurel Canyon and the 70s”, and “Greenwich Village and the 60s”. As a director, John recently directed and music directed Taubert Nadalini’s new one man cabaret show, “Unnerving Berlin”, stage great Carolyn Mignini’s one woman cabaret show, “Time is on my Side”, and a Noël Coward Cabaret “Destiny’s Tot Becomes the Master” with stage great Lawrence Pressman. Over the past four years John has collaborated with multiple theatres in putting on highly successful plays, music shows, and staged readings for which he not only performs in, but curates the talent for the performances. The arts are his life, and John is honored to be able to perform for a living as an actor, musician, and director. John is a firm believer in studying the classics in order to understand the modern world. He hopes that theatre can once again return to greatness, and always thinks about what the great Mary Lou Rosato insisted, instilled, and demanded from him for years in New York, “Technique serves the imagination. Without both working together and aligned, an artist has nothing”.