The Shameless Actor & Writer
Photographer: Michaye Butter
Feature film review
"The fascinating thing about Stern's The Forgiving* is the lead performance of John Gerard Healy. Healy is controlled and understated; he manages to convey Avi’s despair naturally." ScreenCritix More reviews
* Winner Best Feature - Maryland International Film Festival.
Nominated Best Actor, Winner Best Ensemble - Atlanta Film Festival of Horror for Me Casa Es Su Casa.
Training - Resume
Aquila Theater, New York, NY
Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin: Screen Acting 1,2 & 3
- An early highlight: a Wildling on the set of Game of Thrones
If you're an actor and need a Reader, contact me here: WeAudition.com/JohnGerardHealy
"Healy is an unnerving Chameleon with a nonchalant disregard for his own dignity!"
The Examiner newspaper theater review.
"About" section below.
About
Motto: "Humor is no laughing matter."
A New Yorker all his working life, John left Ireland as a young lad and joined an ad. agency. One day, he walked out to advertise himself as ... The Shameless Actor & Writer.
Shameless Repertoire
Writer/Producer of farce & satire genres- Trailers
Whimsical Comedy: See Comedy Reel
Review: "Malins arrives drunk and gets more intoxicated as the night progresses, much to the consternation of his elderly mother..." MDTheaterGuide
Flawless Accents: US, Southern, NY, English-RP, Cockney, Irish, Russian - See reel
Why I'm a Shameless Artist
I am steely-eyed to render our humanity as a bulwark against agents of dehumanization (racism, greed, corporatization, etc.) ... shamelessly!
Latest projects below.
New film projects:
Birth Of A Psyche & Out Of This World
On location, "Birth Of A Psyche" feature.
Rough cut/raw footage clip.
John's current feature, Birth Of A Psyche (in post), is set in 1600's Colonial Massachusetts and contemporary times. (See film clip & photos below).
A beautifully shot arthouse drama about the first Puritan Colonists in Massachusetts; the film reveals their fascinating intersection with current US cultural wars.
Writer/Director Rachelle Mozman Solano.
John plays several characters:
John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629
Alex Jones, the current QAnon conspiracist media personality
Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shayman" Jan. 6th rioter
Cpt. Myles Standish, the leading English Military officer of the Plymouth Colony, 1620
Out Of This World
Short comedy film about the best place in the universe to shoot a movie. (In post production).
Logline: An overly eager tour guide entices filmmakers to West Cork with the help of an odd-ball, film-obsessed alien who thinks he can act.
See Blog about The Making Of: Out Of This World
