John is Associate Director (New Work) of the National Theatre of Scotland. 
For the National Theatre of Scotland: The Bacchae, the multi award-winning Black Watch, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Home: Glasgow. 
Theatre includes: Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse, If Destroyed True, Mercury Fur and The Straits (Paines Plough).

For the Donmar: The Chalk Garden, John Gabriel Borkman The Cryptogram, Boston Marriage (also New Ambassadors). Theatre includes: for the West End: The Dumb Waiter, The 39 Steps, Summer and Smoke, Donkeys' Years, The Home Place, The Birthday Party, Ying Tong, A Woman of No Importance; for the RSC: King John, Brand, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; for the NT: Honk!, Widowers' Houses. Other theatre work includes: Romance (Almeida), The Home Place (Gate Dublin), Honk! (UK tour, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and Singapore), The Scarlet Letter, Just So, Pal Joey (Chichester), Hilda (Hampstead), The Rivals (Bristol old Vic), The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).