Artist

John Michael DiResta (Director) focuses on new play development and theater for social justice. Recent credits include Yellowface, Lyle the Crocodile, The Romeo and Juliet Project, The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Northwestern University); The Insurgents (New Dramatists); Favorites (Rising Phoenix Rep); A Crack in the Canvas, Bisexuality is for Teenagers, Watching the Thunder (MCC Theater); and Back to Society (Abrons Arts Center). John has assistant directed Skylight (Court Theatre); The Verona Project (American Music Theater Project); Judgment Day (Bard Summerscape); and Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). John was the producer of the MCC Theater Youth Company from 2007–2010, and is also a teaching artist and writer.