John Pike

 
Artist Teacher

Email: johnpike1@gmail.com

Biography: John Pike joined The Hartt School in 2003 where he currently teaches theatre history and text analysis as well as performance. He has also been on the music theatre faculty of Syracuse University. Prior to that time John was Artistic Associate for Goodspeed Musicals where he worked on more than 100 productions in various capacities including dramaturg and musicologist. Among the significant productions he collaborated on while at Goodspeed were The Most Happy Fella, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and By Jeeves (all on Broadway) as well as revising the books for King of Hearts, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

For The Hartt School he served as musical director for Coram Boy, The Singing Cowboy and Scapin. As a director recent productions include Cabaret, Big, and Seussical. Other productions as director/musical director include The Wild Party, A Little Night Music (Syracuse), Titanic, The Apple Tree, The Mikado, Pippin, Brigadoon, Company, The Frogs, Smokey Joe's Café (Ivoryton Playhouse). Merrily We Roll Along and South Pacific. He is the co-author of The Christmas Tree Dinner which was performed at the Old Lyme Inn in 2010. He has written music for several plays and is the author of The Grand View and The Womb.

John was publisher of Show Music Magazine, the foremost periodical on the musical theatre in the U.S, where he oversaw the premiere text editions of Parade, Big, Triumph of Love and A Class Act. Recently he edited the book HAIR: The Story of the Show That Defined a Generation. His articles have appeared in Playbill Magazine, The Sondheim Review and Dramatists Quarterly. He has served on ASCAP's New Works panel, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts music and theatre panels and has worked for the NEA. He holds degrees in theatre, music, Latin and management from Wake Forest, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) and the Yale School of Drama.