John Copeland
Los Angeles, CA
Raised in rural Indiana, he graduated from Chicago’s Goodman School of Drama in 1982 and quickly began his acting career, including a 1985 production of Hamlet starring Aidan Quinn, Del Close, Deanna Dunagan and Neil Flynn.
In 1986, he founded Stop AIDS Chicago, the city’s first agency devoted exclusively to HIV prevention. After serving for 4 years as Program Director, John returned to the stage in 1990, touring across the nation in The Real Live Brady Bunch, directed by Jill Soloway, and starring Jane Lynch, Andy Richter, Ana Geyster and Davy Jones of the Monkees.
Since arriving in Los Angeles, he has expanded his Public Service work to include drug abuse prevention and sexual health access for youth.
On stage, he starred in a popular weekly improvised soap opera in Silver Lake, The Plush Life, which ran for 6 years featuring denizens of a low-rent trailer park, who all happened to be in drag.
John has also done gobs of Shakespeare. He cannot sing.