John Zibell is an independent actor/writer/director working in New York

New York

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 and Regional Theater.

He studied acting with Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate...

, Paul Sills

Paul Sills

Paul Sills was a director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City.-Biography:...

 and George Morrison at the New Actors Workshop

The New Actors Workshop

The New Actors Workshop was a two-year acting conservatory in New York City founded by Master Teachers Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Paul Sills in 1988. The school offered a unique, dual-track curriculum combining Stanislavski-based technique with Viola Spolin Theater Games...

 in Manhattan

Manhattan

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. He appeared in the film The War Within

The War Within (film)

The War Within is a 2005 American drama film directed by Joseph Castelo. Created by Honet Films and released by Magnolia Pictures, the film stars Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen and Sarita Choudhury...

 and wrote, directed and acted in the movie Sex and Violence.
He won the Audience Award/Best Directorial Debut at the NY International Independent Film Festival.

John has worked with Paul Sills, Dianne Paulus

Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of Hair...

 (The Donkey Show) and with director Shira Piven (Piven Theatre

Piven Theatre Workshop

The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, IL and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven. For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional theatre company and a training center for children and adults...

, Chicago; and Water, New York). He has also been a member of a several grass-roots theater companies performing original work including Sills and Company and Blue Circle Theater (also with Ms. Paulus and Mr. Sills).

Zibell originated the role of Jimmy Patraglia in Joe Roland's off-Broadway play On The Line.

In Fall 2010 he worked as assistant to performance artist Guillermo Gomez Pena on the UC Davis production of Gomez Pena's Corpo Ilicito.

He is currently a second-year MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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directing candidate in the department of theatre and dance at UC Davis.

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