About Me
John Cooper
Please allow me to introduce myself, My name is John Cooper, I was born in 1960 & I am a native New Yorker. I have worked on Broadway shows for a long time. I have had a good life in show buisness, for now let me post a list of theatre credits. I may expand the “About Me” section of my website sometime soon.
If nothing else my laundry list of show credits may serve as a conversation starter for our professional relationship.
Summer Season of 2020 - 2024
I run the Local One Audio department at Lincoln Center “Outdoor Stages”
Including staffing several multi use and Pop-Up stages around the Lincoln Center campus.
Broadway Shows and long term jobs.
Water for Elephants January 2024 to present
Bad Cinderella January June 2023
Ain’t Too Proud March 2019 – January 2022.
Ruben and Clay’s First Annual Christmas Family Fun Pageant Spectacular Reunion Show - December 2018
Carousel (Revival) April 2018 – September 2018
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 November 2016 – September 2017
Les Miserables Revival 2 Jan 2014 – September 2016
Billy Crystal 700 Sundays Revival (HBO) October 2013 – Jan 2014
Mike Tyson - The Undisputed Truth (HBO) 2013
Nice Work If You Can Get It February 2012 – June 2013
Billy Elliott July 2008 – Jan 2012
Legally Blonde May 2007 – Feb 2008
Coram Boy May 2007 – June 2007
High Fidelity December 2006
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels March 2005 – September 2006
The Boy From Oz October 2003 – Sept 2004
Flower Drum Song (Revival) October 2002 – March 2003
By Jeeves October 2001 – December 2001
The Music Man (Revival 1) February 2000 – October 2001
Ragtime January 1998 – January 2000
King David May 1997 – June 1997
Rent April 1996 – December 1997
Grease Revival Jan 1994 – Feb 1996
Cyrano The Musical Sept 1993 – January 1994
Falsettos Feb 1993 – July 1993
Les Miserables October 1990 – Jan 1993
Walt Disney World - EPCOT Center - American Gardens Stage June 1989 – June 1990
Starmites March 1989 – June 1989
Don’t Get God Started October 1987 January 1988
Burn This August 1988 – October 1988
3 Guys Naked From The Waist Down February 1985 July 1986
The Coronation Of Poppea November 1982
Masque Sound 1980 – 1989
Along the way I set up and worked extensively on
Once Upon a Mattress (Revival)
Jerome Robbins Broadway
Hairspray
Grease (Revival 2)
Charity Fundraisers
Foundation for Deafness Research
Manhattan Theater Club
“Hair” at the U.N.
Joe Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation
Substituted or worked briefly on
Funny Girl Revival
Head of Audio at the Rubenstien Atrium at Lincoln Center
Phantom of the Opera
The Women at the American Airlines Theater (HBO)
Our Town with Paul Neuman at the Booth Theater (HBO)
Radio Golf
Me and My Girl
The Gospel of Colonus
Jackie Mason - The World According to Me
The Tony Awards
Industrial Shows
Nascar at the Waldorf
Pfizer at the Wardorf
Coke Shareholders Meeting at The Paramount Theater in Madison Square Garden
Goldman Sachs Monthly Meetings,
Ciba Geigy in Orlando, Long Beach CA and Los Angeles
Symantec Meetings at Pier 61
Additionally, I have worked load-ins and load-outs at most of the Broadway theaters.
I have worked at the David Koch (New York State) Theater
I have prepared rental sound systems at Masque Sound, Sound Associates and PRG
