John Kahara

Trap Door credits

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

    Ensemble member John Kahara (he/him/his) has been a member of the Trap Door community since 2002. You can connect with him on his website.

    Kahara’s favorite line from a Trap Door production:

    “Blaaack bottles” —Garden of Delights

    Gallery

    John Kahara’s Cardinal, a man of the cloth who regularly enjoys the pleasures of the flesh in his own clinical way, provides the cold-steel resolve?

    (Duchess of Malfi) Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune

    Kahara as the nebbish Ree does an excellent job of playing up Ree’s patient restraint, which makes his sudden outbursts of insanity all the more impactful.

    (Chaste) Keith Ecker, Chicago Theater Beat

    John Kahara displays excellent comic timing as Biedermann servant Anna…

    (The Arsonists) Lauren Whalen, Chicago Theater Beat

    John Kahara is subtle and bawdy and conflicted and sure as Paul Ree

    (Chaste) J Scott Hill, Chicago Stage Review