Artistic Director
John Harvey is co-founder of Mildred's Umbrella, and the writer of our first four plays; Kama Sutra, Eros: A Circus, Things Being at the Worst and Tomorrow Morning. A graduate of University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, his poems have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Whiskey Island, and XCP. Harvey has collaborated with local writers in performance-art shows at the Art Car Ball and the Menil Collection and made his acting debut in December 2003, in a dos chicas theater commune production of Immaculate Contraception/Sadomasochistic Christmas. He also played Inspector Viper in Mildred's Umbrella's Tomorrow Morning, and Jonathan Harker in Mac Wellman's Dracula. He teaches at Houston Community College and lectures at the University of Houston Honors College.
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