About John
With Christine Albright--Romeo and Juliet
John Tufts is a Lucille Lortel nominated actor based in New York.
He has won numerous awards for his work in the US and in Europe.
Head Over Heels
Off-Broadway, he received a Lucille Lortel nomination for originating the roles of Mary and Bingley in the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s celebrated adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages. He received a Jeff nomination for his role as Edmond Rostand in the Chicago premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Bernhardt/Hamlet. Also in Chicago he has done four hit shows at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, including the U.S Premiere of the London smash hit, Nell Gwynn. At Arena Stage in Washington D.C. he received a D.C. Theater Critics’ nomination for his roles in the world premiere of Bill Cain’s Steinberg Award-wining play, Equivocation. He received the prestigious Indy Award for his performance in Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, I Am My Own Wife. Though he travels all over, from the Bay Area to Chicago to Minneapolis to New York, his artistic home is the Oregon Shakesepare Festival, where was a company member for 13 years. There he performed in 22 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays and was fortunate to originate roles in several world premieres including Equivocation, Head over Heels, UP, Robin Hood, and more.
Jonathan Haugen, Dick Elmore, Gregory Linington--Equivocation
John is also a writer. His play It’s Christmas, Carol!, written with fellow OSF company members, Mark Bedard and Brent Hinkley had its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the Fall/Winter of 2021. An accomplished chef, he has also written a cookbook about the food of Shakespeare’s England titled Fat Rascals: Dining at Shakesepare’s Table. His cooking show, “Eatso-Facto,” which tells the often bizarre origin stories of our favorite foods airs weekly on YouTube. He lives in New York with his wife, Chris, and their clever son, Henry.
