John Robert Tillotson

Big Daddy

John has performed extensively in major theatres throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Europe where he played Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at The English Theatre-Frankfurt and Theater Basel, directed by Jonathan Fox. His New York credits include Is Life Worth Living?  at The Mint Theater, The Imaginary Invalid and Marriage, both with the Pearl Theatre Company, as well as appearances with The York Theatre and John Houseman’s The Acting Company. His regional theatre performances include  roles at Triad Stage (Orgon in Tartuffe), The Guthrie Theater (Amadeus for director Joe Dowling), The Shakespeare Theatre Company (the Free-for-All hit The Taming of the Shrew, directed by David Muse, the Keith Baxter and Gillian Lynne production of The Imaginary Invalid, Love’s Labour’s Lost for director Stephen Fried and Mary Zimmerman’s production of Pericles),  McCarter Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival (American premiere of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s musical Rough Crossing, directed by Martin Platt). He toured North America in The Sound of Music as Uncle Max opposite Marie Osmond, and as Santa Claus in The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes. He starred in Ken Hill’s operetta Phantom of the Opera on its European tour to Berlin, Amsterdam, Bregenz, Zurich and an extended engagement at Paris’ Opera-Comique. As an author his new works include the comedies Independence Day and Lust/Realm Plays.
Also a director and a teacher, he staged Much Ado About Nothing last year for The Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company in Louisville, Kentucky.