John Kahara

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • Decomposed Theater, Episode 1
  • 25/25 
  • Phèdre
  • Fantasy Island for Dummies
  • John Doe (Teatr Witkacy, Zakopane, Poland)
  • The Duchess of Malfi
  • The Balcony
  • The Crazy Locomotive (NYC Fringe)
  • Me Too, I am Catherine Deneuve 
  • the word progress on my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true
  • Chaste
  • Beholder
  • Horses At The Window
  • The Swan
  • Katzelmacher
  • Nana
Directing
  • Eva Peron (assistant director) 
  • 12 Ophelias (assistant director) 
  • The Swan (assistant director) 
  • Cookie Play (assistant director)

    John Kahara (he/him/his) has been an ensemble with Trap Door since 2002. With Trap Door, he performed at The New York Fringe Fest (The Crazy Locomotive) and toured France with Me Too, I am Catherine Deneuve. He has played twice at the International Theatre Festival of Sibiu (Romania). He also travelled to Zakopane, Poland with the cast of John Doe, performing at the thirtieth anniversary of the Teatr Witkacy. John has appeared in three pieces created by visual artist Catherine Sullivan (Ice Floes, the Chittendens and Triangle of Need) shown at Tate Modern, The Walker, The Whitney, Session and The Pompidou. Around Chicago, John has also worked with Steep Theater and The Hypocrites.