John Hadden

John Hadden lives on a Flower Farm with his family near the end of a dirt road in Southern Vermont. He is a Vermont Teaching Artist, has directed several productions at NEYT, and has strong ties to VT Suitcase Co, Poetry Out Loud, Music from Salem, and Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. Born in Berlin, childhood overseas, he is a founding member of Shakespeare & Co in the Berkshires, co-founder of Counterpoint Theater in Boston, was artistic director of the Hubbard Hall Theater Company in Cambridge, NY, and associate artist with We Players in San Francisco. Projects in Berlin, Cologne, Leningrad, at regional theaters, Yale Center for British Art, WNYC, WBAI, pilots and independent films, and with students of all ages. He won three consecutive Berkshire Theater Critics Awards ("Berkies") in recent years as an actor, and a BIFF award for the short film Taken. He has a theater BFA from SUNY Purchase and a writing MFA from Goddard College. His book Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the CIA, and Me (Arcade, 2016) was the basis for a solo show that went on a long tour. He recently directed Hamlet, Ondine, and Tales from the Land, based on interviews with local farmers, at Main Street Arts, and Jesus Wept, at the Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro. He is excited to work again with the NEYT gang, especially with Sandy, on Peter Gould’s version of Robin Hood!