John Archer Lundgren
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Screen work comprises national distribution and television network
movies; a variety of indie features and shorts,including a number of
festival favorites; TV episodes(domestic and foreign); and industrials,
as well as film school productions. Film/TV production locations have
included Ethiopia, New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and Tennessee.
Screen productions have ranged from gripping drama to farcical comedy
and sentimental tear-jerkers. A wide variety of character roles has
included the loony, pathetic and mean; the wicked, heroic and devious;
the victimized, authoritative and outrageous; the sage, destitute and
debonair. As one casting director put it: "Jack's acting persona is
less vanilla, than chocolate with sprinkles."
Several decades of continuous foreign residence in Latin America,
France and divers countries throughout Africa facilitated a raft of
stage performances in English and Spanish language productions in
various countries, including works by Anderson, Anouilh, Axelrod,
Chekhov, Gilbert & Sullivan, Lerner & Loewe, Roussin, Shaffer, Wilde,
Wilder and Wouk; as well as voice-over recordings for the French
Foreign Legion in Djibouti.
Sporadic visits to the USA included study in the Performing Arts at the
Boston University Theater Institute, as well as a number of stage
performances in Florida and Georgia, including works by Albee, Friel,
Lerner & Loewe, and Miller. For more than ten years, in various
countries and states, in a wide variety of venues, Jack staged his
one-man show based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe; his current
stand-up repertoire resurrects an old-timey vaudeville routine
featuring a variety of short silly patter songs.
In recent years, Jack has performed regularly in theaters throughout
North/Central Florida, interpreting, among others: works by Chekhov,
Shakespeare, Simon, Woldin, Sondheim, Letts and Gelbart; musical shows
for school children; and non-singing performances with the Orlando
Opera Company.
Jack played Rabbi Furtado in the South-Eastern USA premiere of "The
King of Schnorrers" by Judd Woldin, winner of a Tony Award in 1974 for
his score for the musical "Raisin". Jack has interpreted the Magistrate
in two separate productions of Neil Simon's "Fools", as well as rocking
the equally bizarre Congressman Salt in Michel Parker's "The Sensuous
Senator",which was the comedy hit of Jacksonville, Florida's 2003-2004
theater season; then came the scandalous Marcus Lycus in "A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum". These outrageous characters were
followed by Bud Todd, the lascivious lonely-wife chaser in Tracy Letts'
"Man From Nebraska"; as well as the outrageously rickety miser, Jethro
Crouch, in "Sly Fox" by Larry Gelbart, the creator of "M*A*S*H".
Other favorite stage roles from yesteryear have included Captain Queeg
in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", Milo Tindle in "Sleuth", Lady
Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest", the psychopathic Jerry
in Albee's "Zoo Story", and Father Jack in "Dancing at Lughnasa".
Education includes undergraduate study in Missouri, Colorado and
Mexico; graduate study at the Ecuadorian Institute of International Law
in Quito; and a Doctorate in Letters from the University of Lille in
France, as well as the previously mentioned study in the Performing
Arts at the Boston University Theater Institute.
movies; a variety of indie features and shorts,including a number of
festival favorites; TV episodes(domestic and foreign); and industrials,
as well as film school productions. Film/TV production locations have
included Ethiopia, New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and Tennessee.
Screen productions have ranged from gripping drama to farcical comedy
and sentimental tear-jerkers. A wide variety of character roles has
included the loony, pathetic and mean; the wicked, heroic and devious;
the victimized, authoritative and outrageous; the sage, destitute and
debonair. As one casting director put it: "Jack's acting persona is
less vanilla, than chocolate with sprinkles."
Several decades of continuous foreign residence in Latin America,
France and divers countries throughout Africa facilitated a raft of
stage performances in English and Spanish language productions in
various countries, including works by Anderson, Anouilh, Axelrod,
Chekhov, Gilbert & Sullivan, Lerner & Loewe, Roussin, Shaffer, Wilde,
Wilder and Wouk; as well as voice-over recordings for the French
Foreign Legion in Djibouti.
Sporadic visits to the USA included study in the Performing Arts at the
Boston University Theater Institute, as well as a number of stage
performances in Florida and Georgia, including works by Albee, Friel,
Lerner & Loewe, and Miller. For more than ten years, in various
countries and states, in a wide variety of venues, Jack staged his
one-man show based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe; his current
stand-up repertoire resurrects an old-timey vaudeville routine
featuring a variety of short silly patter songs.
In recent years, Jack has performed regularly in theaters throughout
North/Central Florida, interpreting, among others: works by Chekhov,
Shakespeare, Simon, Woldin, Sondheim, Letts and Gelbart; musical shows
for school children; and non-singing performances with the Orlando
Opera Company.
Jack played Rabbi Furtado in the South-Eastern USA premiere of "The
King of Schnorrers" by Judd Woldin, winner of a Tony Award in 1974 for
his score for the musical "Raisin". Jack has interpreted the Magistrate
in two separate productions of Neil Simon's "Fools", as well as rocking
the equally bizarre Congressman Salt in Michel Parker's "The Sensuous
Senator",which was the comedy hit of Jacksonville, Florida's 2003-2004
theater season; then came the scandalous Marcus Lycus in "A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum". These outrageous characters were
followed by Bud Todd, the lascivious lonely-wife chaser in Tracy Letts'
"Man From Nebraska"; as well as the outrageously rickety miser, Jethro
Crouch, in "Sly Fox" by Larry Gelbart, the creator of "M*A*S*H".
Other favorite stage roles from yesteryear have included Captain Queeg
in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", Milo Tindle in "Sleuth", Lady
Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest", the psychopathic Jerry
in Albee's "Zoo Story", and Father Jack in "Dancing at Lughnasa".
Education includes undergraduate study in Missouri, Colorado and
Mexico; graduate study at the Ecuadorian Institute of International Law
in Quito; and a Doctorate in Letters from the University of Lille in
France, as well as the previously mentioned study in the Performing
Arts at the Boston University Theater Institute.