Jon Koons: ACTOR/SINGER
If you need a versatile, entertaining actor and singer, the videos, audio samples and resumes below should convince you! I've been all around this business, from Broadway to Feature Film and TV.
Jon Koons: SINGER features snippets of 21 songs and singing styles, performed at 15 different venues, all in under 8 minutes. A great overview of what I can offer your production or event!
Featuring appearances by Courtney Foster Donahue, R.J. Lewis, Merlin Ryan Koons, Molly Densmore, Erin Zapcic, and Ilan Kwittken as Judy Garland, and live music by Metamorphic Winds and Mikki Ryan. We are all available for your event. For many of these songs and more in their entirety, click The Way I Sound below.
JON KOONS Actor • Singer AEA * SAG * AFTRA
917-622-5069/cell 434 Tenafly Road / Englewood, NJ 07631
5’10” • 180+/- lbs Baritone Brown Eyes • Dk. Brown Hair
jon@jestmaster.com • www.Jestmaster.com
ABRIDGED RESUME
BROADWAY
- The Ritz -ChaCha (snooty patron) Henry Miller Theatre
OFF BROADWAY, REGIONAL AND SUMMER THEATRE
- Cockeyed Radio -Buddy Irvin JestMaster Productions, Inc.
- Sax-O-Philm -Buddy Jr. / Buddy JestMaster Productions, Inc.
- Plaza Suite -Jesse Kiplinger Slapdash & Huckle Prod./NJ
- Dr. Miracle -The “Real” Dr. Miracle Orchestra of St. Lukes / NYC
- Memorial -Noncom The Open Book / NYC
- Bastien and Bastienne (tour) -Crabby Stage Manager Opera Festival of New Jersey
- Angel -The Prosecutor The Open Book / NYC
- Chaplin -Sydney Chaplin/Narrator Perona Farms Dinner Theatre/NJ
- Hoboken Chicken Emergency -The Professor, et al. The Open Book / NYC
- Dearest Nicky, Darling Alex -Rasputin/Narrator The Open Book / NYC
- The Good Doctor -The Writer THUD Players / NJ
- A Christmas Carol -Scrooge Forward Prod. / Atlantic City
- Oliver -Fagin John Harms Plaza Theater
- Fiddler on the Roof -Tevye Tenafly Theatre Company
- ...Cuckoo’s Nest -R.P. McMurphy Tenafly Theatre Company
- Snoopy!!! -Snoopy Discovery Theatre
- Mash -Hawkeye Parish Players
- Macbeth -Seyton/Third Murderer Wagner College Theatre
- The Fantasticks -Hucklebee Tenafly Theatre Company
- Tevye & Friends (with Harry Goz) -Ensemble Centerstage
- The Mousetrap -Major Metcalf Stagedoor Manor
- VARIETY PERFORMANCES, REVUES, CABARETS & MURDER MYSTERIES at numerous events, private and public
FEATURE FILM AND TELEVISION
- Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation -Dahl Papadam
- OZ (HBO) -Corrections Officer Parks
- Between The Lions (PBS) -Inquisitive Bookworm
- Hair -Featured Hippie
- Legal Eagles -Ambulance crew chief
- Whose Behind the Faces (music video) -Clown/Actor (principal)
- Seize the Day -Hasidic Jew
- The Believers -Paramedic
- Man Who Fell to Earth -Fire Eater/Street Performer
- Another World -Several day player roles
- Slaves of New York -Featured Paramedic
COMMERCIALS, INDUSTRIALS and VOICEOVER [No Conflicts]
- Anacin “Emergency” / national TV spots -Ambulance Driver (principal)
- The Magic of Instructing / industrial video for Jackson Hewitt -Spokesperson/Magician
- Terror/Crisis Management / US Army training film -Police Sergeant
- The Man and His Art; A Retrospective / multi-image -Voiceover (character)
- New York in 7 Minutes / multi-image -Voiceover
- Be Prepared: The Boy Scouts of America / multi-image -Voiceover
- The Adventure of the Missing Countess/ audio book -All vocal characterizations
SPECIAL TALENTS AND SKILLS
Variety Skills: Magic, Clowning, Ventriloquism, Fire Eating, Juggling, Balloon Sculpting, Face Painting, Stilt Walking, Mime, Slapstick, Improvisational and Stand-Up Comedy, Celebrity/Character Impersonation. Limited dance, stage combat, limited stunt work, make-up design, theatrical design, graphic design, stage and film direction, construction, published author, guitarist, wide range of dialects, photography, skiing, horseback riding, gourmet cook, entrepreneur. OWN: driver’s license, various vehicles, bicycle, floppy Schnauzer, numerous costumes of all descriptions, all manner of props, set pieces and other junk!