John (Jack) DesBois
2/28/12
Theater Resume
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Actor Credits: (* denotes musical)
o *2010 with Revels of Cambridge, MA: “The Christmas Revels” (adult chorus member, dancer)
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)
Tech Credits:
o 2010 and 2011 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!”
Music: (in addition to musicals listed under Actor Credits)
o Member of Redhot & Blue of Yale University, a coed jazz a cappella group, (fall 2011 – spr 2012)
o Chorus member on The Christmas Revels’ 2011 CD
o Member of the B-Flats, Belmont Hill School’s select chorus (fall 2007 – spring 2010)
o 2nd Tenor section leader of the B-Flats (fall 2008 – spring 2010)
o Member of the Middle School Glee Club (fall 2006 – spring 2007)
o Beginner piano skills
Theater and Music Education:
o Fall 2010-Spring 2011: Assistant teacher for Glen Urquhart School’s seventh grade Drama class
o Spring 2011: Assistant teacher for Glen Urquhart School’s eighth grade musical
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)
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 Belmont Hill’s 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)
John (Jack) DesBois
2/28/12