John James Rinaldi
johnjamesrinaldi@gmail.com
Phone Number: +31 6 1887 3518

Film:

“Crossroads Life” (Oliver) Dir. Andra Tevy. (This short film was shown (and won the Jury Prize) at The Hague Global Cinema Festival in Den Haag, the Netherlands.)

“Beast and Feast” (Chicken Man) Dir. Josefin Arnell. (This film will debut in March, 2023 at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands.)

Streaming Productions and Podcasts:

“The Actor’s Atlas” (Guest, season 3, to be released in 2023): Prickly Pear Productions, UK.

“Theatre Talk UK Facebook Group” Online Chats (Co-Host, May 2021-present, with Broadway/London/Touring alumni of “Evita”, “Cats”, “Sunset Blvd” and “Phantom of the Opera”)

“Little Shop of Horrors Online Cabaret” (Mr. Mushnik, for Tenacious Theatrics. Streaming May, 2021)

”If You Knew My Story” (Myself, “Wrong Reflection”, for Palo Alto Players, October 2020)

”Holiday Family Sing-Along” (Performer, “The Christmas Song in Dinglish”, Dutch mixed with English, for Palo Alto Players, December 2020)

“The Perfect Year” (Performer, “Before the Parade Passes By”, and group numbers, for P3 Theater Company, December, 2020)

”How We Keep the Art Alive” (Tenacious Theatrics) Podcast: Performed “The Least of My Troubles” from “Blondel” by Stephen Oliver and Tim Rice. (April, 2021)

”Live with P3 Theater Company Educates” Interview (September, 2020)

”Morgan on the Dayley” Podcast: performed “Travel” by Maltby and Shire with Morgan Dayley (April, 2020)

”Drunk Broadway” Podcast: interviewed about the history and importance of the show “She Loves Me” by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. (March, 2019)

RECORDINGS:

“The Best of Broadway” (produced by JB Presents, San Jose, CA)

Role: Sing “Take Me to the World” with Krissy Dorn (Soprano) and Matthew Martin Ward (Pianist, MD, Arrangement)

“Home Hope and Holidays” (produced by Broadway By The Bay, Redwood City, CA)

Role: Choir, Tenor 2 Section
October 2020

“Scandalous (a New Operetta)” by Geoff Colton

Role: Charles Surface, Tenor
January 2017

CABARET AND CONCERTS:

“Not Just a Phase/Niet Zomaar Een Fase”
(my newest solo Cabaret show)
Premiered at Kerk van Beets, October, 2021

“Another Hundred People”
(my second solo Cabaret show)
Society Cabaret, San Francisco, July 2017
Society Cabaret, San Jose, April 2018

“G Scott Lacy: Duets”
(guest singer)
Society Cabaret, San Francisco
November 2017

“Chess” in Concert
(sang “The Arbiter’s Song”)
South Bay Musical Theatre
May-June 2017

Broadway San Jose 2018 Season Rollout Announcement
Society Cabaret/Broadway San Jose
February 2017

“Cabanoir”
(a Holiday Spoof Film Noir Cabaret, played the dual role of Bad Santa/Nicky Gazpacho)
Society Cabaret, San Francisco
December 2016

“Ann and Mark’s Art Party 2016”
(45 minute solo cabaret show)
Society Cabaret/Broadway San Jose
September 2016

“Oh What a Beautiful Evening”
(featured singer)
Foothill Music Theatre
Directed by Milissa Carey
July 2016

“He Said/She Said”
(my first solo Cabaret show)
Society Cabaret, San Jose, June 2016
Society Cabaret, San Francisco, January 2017
Sausalito Song Society, April 2018

Don’t Tell Mama, New York, September, October and November, 2018

“Stages of Love” (Patrick Leveque)
(guest singer)
Society Cabaret, San Francisco
June 2016

“Songs in September”
(featured singer)
Hillbarn Theatre
September 2013

Verdi Requiem
Chorus
Mendocino Music Festival
July, 2017

LIVE Theatre:

Sweet Charity
May 2016
Role: Herman
Company: Hillbarn Theatre
Director: Erica Wyman

She Loves Me
February - March 2016
Role: Ladislav Sipos
Company: Foothill Musical Theater
Director: Milissa Carey

Kiss Me Kate
November 2015
Role: Pops / Padua Priest
Company: Broadway By The Bay
Director: Milissa Carey

Jesus Christ, Superstar
July - August 2015
Role: Herod
Company: Coastal Repertory Theatre
Director: Joe Duffy

Curtains
May 2015
Role: Oscar Shapiro
Company: Hillbarn Theatre
Director: Nancy Metzler

Sunday in the Park with George
March 2015
Role: Mister (Understudy for Jules, Louis)
Company: Foothill Musical Theater
Director: Milissa Carey

Les Misérables
July 2014
Role: Bamatabois/Army Officer
Company: Woodminster Summer Musicals
Director: Joel Schlader

Annie Get Your Gun
July 2013
Role:  Moonshine Lullaby Trio
Company: Woodminster Summer Musicals
Director: Joel Schlader

EDUCATION, Teaching AND Course work

BFA, Vocal Performance

Notre Dame de Namur University
May, 2015
Summa Cum Laude

Voice

Dr. Lee Strawn
2012-2015

Kathryn Skatula
1988-1992

Darlene Romano
1980-1985

Teaching

John Rinaldi Voice Studio
Opened January 2015

Course Work

Master Class for Singers (Mendocino Music Festival, with Daniel Lockert and Jenny Matteucci)

September 2020-Present

Meisner International Amsterdam (with Steven Ditmyer)
Foundations of Meisner, Monologues, Emotional Preparation, Independent Activities, Meisner in Practice Webinars

November 2019-Present

Studio A.C.T. (at American Musical Theatre, San Francisco)
Acting IV (contemporary and classical), Musical Theatre Scene Study,
Musical Theatre Audition Prep, Master Class for Singers, Cabaret Project

2006-2008