John Hadden was a founding member/Associate Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Co, where he acted, taught and directed for twenty years and founded the company's Summer Training Program; he was also the co-founder/Artistic Director of Counterpoint Theater Company, Boston. He has taught at Ohio University, Dartmouth, Bennington, Boston University, Bryn Mawr, Emerson, Quinnipiac, and Berkshire Country Day School, where his students invented all kinds of plays. Acting credits include Treplev (The Seagull), St. Petersburg, USSR; Columbus (Deathsongs), nat'l tour; Cassio (Othello), Alliance Theatre; Romeo, Hamlet, Iago, Richard II, Leontes, Fool, etc, Shakespeare & Company; Scrooge at Portland Stage; Alamo, by Rick Moody, for WNYC; as well as leading roles in film and TV. He was an award-winner at the 2009 Boston International Film Festival for appearing in and directing the short film Taken. Other recent directing projects: Syncopation, Portland Stage Co; ChaChaCha Das Comical, Tanzbrunnen, Cologne; The World Beyond the Hill: the Life and Work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Richard III, Elm Shakespeare Co; The Hamlet Project, Yale Ctr. for British Art/New Haven Schools. Playwriting: Stray Dogs, Ensemble Studio Theatre Octoberfest; Hard Rain, New England Foundation award/Mixed Company (Great Barrington); Women at War, Northampton Ctr. for the Arts; Escher’s Puddle, Firehouse 13 (Providence). One-acts at PS 122 and LaMama ETC in New York, and Naked Theater, Northampton MA. An excerpt of his book, Travels with a Masked Man, appeared in the 2006 American Letters & Commentary.