John Frey

John Frey has worked internationally as an actor, director and screenwriter in theater, film and television for over 25 years. John has also been an acting teacher in Lisbon, Copenhagen and New York C ...Show More

John Frey has worked internationally as an actor, director and screenwriter in theater, film and television for over 25 years. John has also been an acting teacher in Lisbon, Copenhagen and New York City. He established the John Frey Studio for Actors in Lisbon, Portugal in 2009 (Meisner Technique Acting School). John is the artistic director of Below The Belt Theatre co. in Lisbon. John directed critically acclaimed productions of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and The MotherF **ker with the Hat in Lisbon with Below the Belt, as well as various staged readings including Denis Johnson's Love's Debris in conjunction with the Disquiet International Literary Program. In New York City, John directed Summer and Smoke, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen and Call it Clover on Theater Row. Theater acting credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Miss Julie, Of Mice and Men and Bruce Nauman Retrospective at DIA Center for the Arts, written and directed by Tate Award winner Mark Wallinger. Film credits include Michael Imperioli's The Hungry Ghosts, On the Run, The Collection and 15 Months in May (NYC). Call Girl, In Slow Motion, The Lovebirds, Operation Autumn and Cabaret Maxime (Portugal). The Wake (Denmark). A Palestra produced by the European Capital of Culture 2012 and Les Taxis Rouges with Jean Reno (France). Television credits include Rescue Me with Dennis Leary and the TV miniseries Mata Hari with Rutger Hauer and Gérard Depardieu (Russia). John's screenwriting credits include The Lovebirds (Lisbon), The Collection (NYC), Operation Autumn (Lisbon), Cabaret Maxime, (Lisbon). John is a graduate of the William Esper Studio for Actors (Meisner Technique NYC).AWARDS Operation Autumn - Academy Portuguese Cinema - 2013 - Best Adapted Screenplay The Lovebirds - International Festival Ourense, Spain - 2009 - Best Screenplay The Lovebirds - International Festival FantasPorto, Portugal - 2009 - Jury Award Best Film Hide