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New York City , New York , USA
John Andrew Vaas began his focus on acting in 2005 after being cast as a recurring performer on X-Men III, Masters of Horror & Killer Instinct in addition to several other film and television programs. Enjoying the rewarding challenge of on-camera work, John Andrew enrolled as a student of the Stanislavsky System of Acting headed by former National Theatre of Bulgaria Director Assen Gadjalov - at the Methodica Acting Studio in Vancouver, BC. In between classes & one-act plays, while working on film-school & independent projects, John Andrew played "Hit #1" aka "The Collector" in the ground-breaking web series "Hitman 101", which was nominated for a Leo Award, and won best web series at the LA Webfest. John Andrew continued his study in Los Angeles at the Andrew Wood Acting Academy of a contemporary system that is taught at Yale University, as well as, with Stella Adler's previous assistant Ron Burrus at the Art of Acting Studio in Hollywood. While also appearing in many independent projects in the Los Angeles film community notably playing the co-lead in the award-winning CSUN production, "Vindicated" & a small part in Zoe Cassavetes "Junior". John Andrew was a part of the cast in the Venice-based Pacific Resident Theatre, (whose members include Hal Holbrook & Viggo Mortenson) of their well-received production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". Following on, John Andrew landed the title role in Green Room Theatre's contemporary staging of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Further work with Green Room Theatre included roles in "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear" working for British director John Alex Houton from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. An aficionado of stoic portrayal, John Andrew is a multi-instrumentalist musician with a passion for Arch-top guitars and vacuum tube sound, punctuating the jingle-jangle of composition and performance in between sunny days of film, television & theatre projects. A keen cinephile noting the French "Nouvelle Vague", Italian "Super Violence" & American "1970's Cinema Revival" genres as among his favorites, John Andrew has also written several screenplays and is working toward a directorial bow in the future. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ~esp.
