John Fleck is a performance artist & actor based in Los Angeles. In 1990, he & 3 other performance artists, now known as the NEA-4, were denied funding by the National Endowment for the Arts culminating in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving freedom of speech and charges of obscenity.

John’s previous show Mad Women was nominated for a Bessie Award & won the 2012 LA Weekly Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Other critically acclaimed solo shows include: Side EFFlecks May Include, Johnny’s Got a Gun, Nothin’ Beats Pussy, Dirt, me, A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, Blessed are all the Little Fishes, Psycho Opera & I got the He-Be-She-Be’s.

His self-scripted work has been funded by the Getty, the NEA, Franklin Furnace, the Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, LA Cultural Affairs, Durfee & the Center for Cultural Innovation. He has won 4 LA Critics Circle Awards, 8 DramaLogue, 6 LA Weekly & 2 Backstage West awards, all for outstanding performance. His past performance venues include the ICA (London); ICgA (Boston); The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh); The New Museum, The Public Theater, The Guggenheim Museum, PS-122, Second Stage, La Mama, Dixon Place & Joe’s Pub (NYC); The Broad Stage, The Getty Museum, Cal Plaza, MOCA, Taper 2 & Bootleg (LA).