Biography
John Frey worked internationally as an actor, screenwriter, and teacher in theater, film, and television for over 25 years.
John's screenwriting credits include "Cabaret Maxime" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), opened in February 2020 at the Metrograph Theater in NYC (Best Film Award and Best Screenplay Nominee - Portuguese Society of Authors, Portugal, 2019), "Operação Outono" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, Best Adapted Screenplay Award - Academy of Portuguese Cinema, Portugal, 2013), "The Lovebirds" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, Best Screenplay Award - Festival de Cine de Ourense, Spain, 2009), "The Collection" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, New York City, 2005).
Film acting credits include "The Hungry Ghosts" (dir. Michael Imperioli), "On the Run" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "The Collection" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "15 Months in May" (dir. Anja Murmann) (all USA); "Call Girl" (dir. António-Pedro vasconcelos), "Em Câmara Lenta" (dir. Fernando Lopes), "The Lovebirds" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "Operação Outono" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "A Palestra" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, produced by Guimarães European Capital of Culture) and "Cabaret Maxime" (dir. Bruno de Almeida) (all Portugal); "The Wake" (dir. Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz, Denmark); "Benoît Brisefer: Les Taxis Rouges" (dir. Manuel Pradal) with Jean Reno (France). Television acting credits include "Rescue Me", with Dennis Leary (USA), and the TV miniseries "Mata Hari", with Rutger Hauer and Gérard Depardieu (Russia). Theater acting credits include "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "27 Wagons Full of Cotton", "Miss Julie", "Of Mice and Men", and the Bruce Nauman Retrospective at DIA Center for the Arts, written and directed by Tate Award winner Mark Wallinger.
He established the John Frey Studio for Actors in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2009 (Meisner Technique Acting School). He was the artistic director of Below The Belt Theatre Company in Lisbon. He directed critically acclaimed productions of "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" and "The MotherF**ker with the Hat" in Lisbon with Below the Belt, as well as various staged readings including Denis Johnson's "Love's Debris" in conjunction with the Disquiet International Literary Program. In New York City, John Frey directed "Summer and Smoke", "Talk to Me Like the Rain" and "Let Me Listen and Call it Clover" on Theater Row. John Frey was an acting teacher at the William Esper Studio in NYC.
