Member Profiles
John Mahoney
Biography
John Mahoney, June 1940 – February 2018
John Mahoney has been a Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member since 1979 and has appeared in over 30 Steppenwolf productions, including The Rembrandt, The Herd, The Seafarer, I Never Sang for My Father, The Dresser, Orphans, THe Drawer Boy and You Can't Take it With You. Productions elsewhere include Chapatti, The Outgoing Tide, A Life (Northlight Theatre); Prelude to a Kiss (Broadway) and Romance (Almeida Theatre). He received a Tony Award for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves. Film credits include Moonstruck, Tin Men, Say Anything, Primal Fear, Barton Fink and, most recently, Flipped. On television Mahoney starred in Dinner at Eight, H.E.L.P, The Human Factor and Frasier.
Read Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro's remembrance of John in American Theatre.
Watch & Listen
Credits & Awards
Film
Almost Salinas; She's the One; Primal Fear; The American President; Tin Men; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy; Moonstruck; Say Anything; Suspect.Theatre
Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves Irish Repertory Theatre: Long Days Journey into Night National Jewish Theatre: After the Fall Geffen Playhouse: The Weir The Nation Theatre: The Drawer Boy The Almeida: RomanceTelevision
ER; Frasier (NBC); Nothing Sacred (ABC).Awards
Tony Award (The House of Blue Leaves); Clarence Derwent Award and Theatre World Award (Orphans); Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominations (Frasier).Past Productions
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Absent Friends
- And A Nightingale Sang
- Arms and the Man
- Balm In Gilead
- Balm in Gilead (Remount at the Apollo Theater Center)
- Born Yesterday
- Death And The Maiden
- Death Of A Salesman
- I Never Sang For My Father
- I Sing America
- Loose Ends
- Love Letters
- No Man's Land
- Of Mice And Men
- Orphans
- Our Town
- Philadelphia, Here I Come
- Poets And Actors
- Savages
- Stage Struck
- Supple In Combat
- Talking Heads
- Talking With Studs
- The Birthday Party
- The Drawer Boy
- The Dresser
- The Herd
- The Hothouse
- The House
- The Man Who Came To Dinner
- The Seafarer
- The Soldier's Tale
- The Song of Jacob Zulu
- Waiting For Lefty
- Wrong Turn At Lungfish
- You Can't Take It With You