John Cole is a director, writer, and actor, currently residing in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley. His director’s vitae for the stage ranges from C.S. Lewis, to Jean Giraudoux and Shakespeare; and from original shows by-for- and about-young men struggling with the passage of adolescence, tonationally -and internationally touring shows such asACeltic Christmas and American Indigenous Epiphany. John's shows have been performed everywhere from church basements to world-class concert halls.

As a stage actor John played Dr. Treeves opposite Robert Greygrass’s John Merrick inThe Elephant Man at The Actor’s Theatre in southern Oregon. His play The Boy Wonders was produced as a staged reading in the Green Room in Ashland, Oregon. John was also a contributing writer to the recent “full-contact theater circus event” known asThe Neo Variety Show also in Ashland’s Green Room Theatre. In addition to his free-lance work, John is the Producing Artistic Director of The Warehouse on Bartlett for Rogue Community College where he is also a professor of Speech and Theatre Arts.