Born in 1952, John Alan Snyder holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Boston University College of Fine Arts. He has appeared in over sixty plays, films, and television episodes. He has received acting awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Drama-Logue, and The Boston Phoenix.
On stage, he appeared in the original Broadway cast of “Bent” and the world premiere of Denis Spedaliere’s ”Vicious”.
His directing credits include stage and video productions of Hybrid Vigor, Scenes from an Interracial Marriage, Finnegans Wake-up Call, and Shaving Orbits, as well as PXL productions of Venus in Flames, and Locals.
His essay “Confessions of a Wakefield: Bibliomantic Readings in Finnegans Wake” was originally presented at the 2001 International James Joyce Conference at the University of California Berkeley.
In 1996 he had a supporting role as Sal in the action blockbuster Eraser, starring Vanessa Williams. Further appearances include the thriller BitterSweet (1999, with Linda Li and Mike Massa), the crime drama Jimmy Zip (1999, with John Billingsley and Karen Landry), the drama Paris (2003, starring Chad Allen and with Biff Yeager and James Lew), the crime thriller The Box (2003, with Brad Dourif), and as narrator on the short film Souvenir (2004).
What kind of cancer did John Snyder’s wife have?
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People mistake John Alan Snyder for John Richard Schneider, also an American actor and country music singer whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.