John V. Bellomo is a Philadelphia based Director, Actor, Movement Specialist, and Teacher with over 35 years of professional theatre experience. He is the former Artistic Director of The Maryland Shakespeare Festival and former Co-Artistic Director of Ombelico Mask Ensemble. His directing credits include Antigone, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rivals, The Honorable Maid, Company, The Triangle Factory Fire Project, Oedipussy, The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, The Do’s and Don’ts of Time Travel, The Bros. Flanagan, The Capitano Duped, The Power of Magic, and Fuddy Meers. He received an M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University and a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of the Arts. John is the co-creator and performer of Dead Man’s Mambo, a one-man commedia show in which he plays 11 different characters. Here's what the Washington D.C. City Paper had to say about John and the show when it ran as part of the Capital fringe festival, “…the exaggerated physical diversity of the characters and slaphappy slapstick emblematic of Commedia dell’Arte all get smushed into the form of John Bellomo, a performer of great charisma and mad physical comedy skills. Mixed in
with the puns and melodrama of the story is the tension of OK, how’s he going to make THAT happen?” John received an M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University, a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of the Arts, and a graduate of The International School for the Comic Actor in Reggio Emilia, Italy. John currently is an Associate Professor of Performance at West Chester University.
