John Becker has won three Individual Artist's Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. His musical, Everything I Do, was read at the Kennedy Center and chosen for a workshop at Artist's Bloc. He was commissioned by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in NY to co-write and co-direct the book trailer for Susan Coll's The Stager. His play Summit Meeting was performed at the Kennedy Center for a festival, where it was awarded 1st place by audience vote. John has had plays performed at the Source Theatre in DC and had a play performed Off-Broadway at the Emerging Artists Theatre in New York. A full-length play, Torn, will be produced in the fall of 2020 by the Amazing Theatre Company. He co-wrote and co-produced the short film Thirst, and wrote, produced, and directed the film What They Seem. What They Seem was selected for the Chesapeake Film Festival, Columbia Film Festival, Wheaton Film Festival, screened at Catholic University through the Longacre Lea Theatre Company, and was also featured in the magazine What's Hot. He was commissioned to write a play for the One-Minute Play Festival at Round House Theatre. He has also had plays performed at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Writer's Center, Company 13, the Run of the Mill Theatre (for which they won a Greater Baltimore Theatre Award), the Human Rights Arts Festival for Amnesty International, and many others. He has also written articles for Howlround at Emerson College, DC Theatre Scene, DC Metro Theater Arts, and published poetry and short stories in various publications.