John Birmingham's largest body of work is as a filmmaker. John has been an artist, musician, actor and writer since childhood, and he combined these into filmmaking. He has made, sang and starred in two musical feature films, links below, and he is working on his third feature film which will be done SAG and as traditional Hollywood style as possible. He has had the priviledge to either star in or direct films involving legends such as Ed Asner, Pauly Shore, Fugazi, Peter Medak, and other greats.

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RECENT TID BIT: John may collaborate with ingenius composer/music producer/musician Tony Longworth to create a dark band of sorts, in the sound of Type O Negative or Danzig. Please check out Tony Longworth's music website, he is a real genius music maker and can work with you on any budget to create any type of music for the right project. Check him out!!! www.TonyLongworth.com Tony has composed some of the music for both of John's feature films.

John's first feature film Crazy Animal (www.Crazyanimalmovie.com) will be released March 31, 2009 through Troma Entertainment.

His second feature film, The Vampires of Zanzibar (www.Zanzibarmovie.com), just completed a rough cut by Christmas 2008 and is fine tuning and having the music and visual effects shots done. It will be sent off to film festivals soon, next with plans of landing a major sale and major release in 2009/2010. This second feature film of John's is truly outstanding and cutting edge in its comedy and there are 150 cast, crew and extras all on its side for something amazing to happen...

John is currently in development on his third feature film, a secret subject matter gay comedy, funny for straight and gay audiences, is a SAG production involving a handful of Hollywood greats that will be his most ambitious project as of yet, co-producing with his wife/filmmaker/actress Danica DeCosto and friend/acclaimed commercial director/music producer Justin Jagoda. John will be stepping down on set from production or directing duties to solely concentrate on acting.

The song you hear playing on this page is John singing in his band Essential Illness. John is a singer, guitarist, drummer and producer of music. All of his feature films are musicals or part musicals to date...