John as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? glories in the religious sentiment of the requiem he has created.

John Duncan is the Artistic Director of the Twilight Repertory Theatre. He has also directed about half of the productions for the compan: Extremities, Off Book, Arms And The Man, Death By Laughter, Measure For Measure, and currently The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice. He served as stage manager for She Stoops to Conquer.

    When not working with TRT, John teaches theatre arts at Portland Community College and is a member of the improv comedy group the Light-Fingered Five

    In twenty years in the theatre, John has been an actor, director, playwright, stage manager, producer, and has served in nearly every other position possible in the theatre. He began in the theatre in Eugene, Oregon, where he became a producing partner and principal director for the Cascade Balzac Theatre Company. With Cascade Balzac he directed or acted in The Public Eye, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, Murder at the Howard Johnsons, and his own original audience participation comedy whodunit, Death of a Gelophiliac among many others. In the 1980s he appeared in about 20 plays and directed half a dozen.

    John left the theatre in the nineties to raise his two boys. He returned to the theatre in 1999, when he enrolled as a graduate student at Portland State, where he earned an MS in Theatre Arts in 2002. At that time he partnered with Max Blonde in producing "Master Harold . . . and the boys" as the first play produced at the West End Theatre in Portland.

    In 2006 John joined with Aimé Kelly in forming the New Group Theatre Company, which produced three plays over the next year. In 2008 the company changed its name to the Twilight Repertory Theatre and John became its Artistic Director.

    Twilight Repertory Theatre has often rehearses in John’s garage. For the first year they rehearsed under the watchful eye of his black lab, Tammy, who alas shuffled off this mortal coil at the tender age of 17 in 2008. She is missed by the entire company, even though she flatly refused to laugh at their comedy. The company is currently looking for a new dog with a better sense of humor.