Jon Ferreira

Jonathan Michal Ferreira was born outside of Boston, and grew up in Bangor, Maine, He became involved in community theatre at the age of ten. By the time he was 12, he was already acting professionally. After graduation from Bangor High Schoolclass of 1994, and Emerson College, Boston, MA, BFA in Acting, Cum Laude, 1998. After graduation, Jon moved to Los Angeles and worked as an actor for two years. After serving for a year in AmeriCorps, Jon went on to earn a second degree in Theatre Education Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA, BA in Theater Education, Summa Cum Laude, 2003., and Illinois State University, MFA in Directing, Summa Cum Laude, 2011. from Point Park University, and taught high school Theater and English in Pittsburgh and Baltimore for the next four years. In 2005, Jon moved to New York City, but eventually ended up back in Boston, where he worked as a tour guide for the Freedom Trail Foundation, and continued to act and direct professionally. In 2011, Jon earned his MFA in Directing from Illinois State University, while teaching undergraduate directing classes to theatre majors. After graduating from ISU, Jon worked for a year as a director in Chicago, where he had the privilege of being assistant director of a production of "Tree" at Victory Gardens Theatre, and a play called "The Outgoing Tide" at Northlight Theatre Company, starring John Mahoney and Rondi Reed. Jon then headed back to Maine, where he taught acting and improvization classes at Bangor Adult Education, and opened his own acting studio called MaineStage Actors Studio & Talent. While in Maine, Jon directed four productions at Bangor's only professional theatre company - Penobscot Theatre Company - the same company in which he had started his acting career 25 years earlier. In 2018, Jon moved back to Boston and started producing and directing plays at the Old State House Museum. In 2020, Jon began pre-production on his first feature film. Jon will be adapting and directing his own 2010 graduate thesis production of "Macbeth". The film will be a post-apocalyptic retelling of the classic tale, set in the year 2040, after the fall of civilization. The events of the play will be seen through a modern lens, and tackle contemporary topics such as climate change, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, sexism, reproductive rights, anti-maskers, global pandemic, and more. The film is set to be released in 2022 or 2023. Jonathan died unexpectedly on September 24, 2023, at the age of 47.