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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
John Fleming
Theater Director Central State UniversityFine and Performing ArtsYellow Springs Ohio 45384 United States Home Phone: 9375451478 Birthday: May 12, 2025
Bio
John Fleming founded the YS Kids Playhouse, an avant-garde theater for youth, in 1995. As a director, choreographer, performer and teacher, his career spans over forty years of artistic activity in the theater. Since 2005, he has been an adjunct instructor in theater at Central State University. As Artistic Director of the youth theater, YS Kids Playhouse, he received four awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has a MA in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University. In 2002, he was the first artist to receive a fellowship from the International Peace Research Association. As a performer he has been seen at the Edinborough Festival, Japan’s Toga Festival, the Venice Carnivale, the Montreal International Theater Festival, the Bitef Festival in Belgrade and the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro in Bogota. A native of New Orleans, he currently resides in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
My work attempts to blur the distinction between theater and dance. I work from the outside-in and present the audience with a terrain of theatrical activity from which they enter the piece to engage with a story.
Each production is a strategy for telling a story and making the ordinary become extraordinary through the creative empowerment of the participants. I employ both conventional theatre elements along with nontraditional methods in which lights, sound, decor, image, stillness and silence hold equal measure.
My work is about bringing people together while at the same time an investigation of what keeps people apart.