John (Jack) Erik DesBois
2/6/11
Home: (978) 887-3133
Email: desboisjack@gmail.com
DOB: 11/24/91
Cell: (978) 766-0952
Theater Resume
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Actor Credits: o 2010 with Revels: “The Christmas Revels” (adult chorus member) o 2010 with The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Lysander) o
2010 with Wakefield Repertory Theatre: “Once on this Island” (Daniel Beauxhomme) o
2010 with Dana Hall School: “Rent” (Mark Cohen) o 2010 Background work for a TV pilot, “The Quinn Tuplets” o 2010 with The Winsor School: “Is He Dead?” (Francois Millet) o
2009 with Belmont Hill School: “The Foreigner” (Charlie Baker) o 2009 with Dana Hall School: “Ragtime” (Tateh) o 2009 with The Winsor School: “Remember My Name” (Leon Simon) o 2008 with Belmont Hill School: “Our Town” (George Gibbs) o 2008 with Walnut Hill School: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (Ensemble) o 2008 with Walnut Hill School: “Zombie Prom” (Jake) o 2008 with Walnut Hill School: “The Dining Room” (seven roles) o 2008 with Dana Hall School: “Grease” (Roger) o 2008 with Belmont Hill School: “Baby” (Daddy) o
2008 with Belmont Hill School: “The Visit” (Richard) o 2007 with Belmont Hill School: “Oliver!” (Fagin) o 2007 with Belmont Hill School: “Invisible Friends” (Chuck) o
2006 with Glen Urquhart School: “Guys and Dolls” (Sky Masterson)
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Tech Credits: o 2010 Cambridge River Festival (ASM for the Theatre Stage) o 2009 with Boston Children’s Theatre: “Rent” (carpenter, mic tech, asst. deck manager) o
2009 with Boston Children’s Theatre: “Into the Woods” (carpenter, mic tech, asst. deck manager) o 2009 with Boston Children’s Theatre: “Fame” (carpenter, mic tech, asst. deck manager) o 2009 Cambridge River Festival (stage manager for the Children’s Stage) o 2009 with Belmont Hill School: “Blithe Spirit” (set construction) o
2008 with Belmont Hill School: “And Then There Were None” (set const., rigging, running crew) o 2008 with Belmont Hill School: “Baby” and other one-acts (deck manager, props man., rigging) o 2007 with Belmont Hill School: “The Man Who Came to Dinner” (props, carp., rigging, lighting) o 2007 with Belmont Hill School: “The Giver” (light-board operator) o
2007 with Belmont Hill School “Invisible Friends” (pyrotechnics, set const., rigging, lighting) o Helped with set construction, rigging and/or lighting in “The Foreigner,” “Remember My Name,”
“Our Town” and “Oliver!”
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Music: o Counselor at the Kodaly Music Institute’s Vocal Vacation program, a vocal music camp for middle-schoolers at the New England Conservatory (July 2010) o Member of the B-Flats, Belmont Hill School’s select chorus (Soph.-Sr. yrs) o 2 nd Tenor section leader of the B-Flats (Jr. and Sr. yrs) o
Member of the Middle School Glee Club (Fr. yr) o Basic piano skills
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Theater Education: o Fall 2010-Spring 2011: Assistant teacher for Glen Urquhart School’s seventh grade Drama class o Spring 2011: Assistant teacher for Gen Urquhart School’s eighth grade musical
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Awards and Distinctions: o June 2010: Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA o Admitted to and enrolled in the Class of 2015, Yale University, New Haven, CT o President of the Drama Club at Belmont Hill (Jr. and Sr. yrs) o
Received the Hayden Gaylord Coon Drama Prize for Acting (Jr. and Sr. yrs) o Co-won Belmont Hill’s annual Poetry Festival with a recitation of James W. Hall’s “Maybe Dat’s
Your Pwoblem Too” (Jr. yr) o Received the Middle School Drama Prize for Acting (Fr. yr)