Noted actor and director for film and television, John de Lancie has also earned praise in the world of classical music as a narrator and director on the concert stages of the New York Philharmonic (with Kurt Masur and Sir Colin Davis), Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony (with Charles Dutoit), The Cleveland Orchestra (Vladimir Ashkenazy), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (with Esa-Pekka Salonen).  Repertoire which he has adapted for the concert stage includes Peter Gynt (Sibelius), Oedipus Rex and The Nightingale (Stravinsky), The Bourgeois Gentleman - (Strauss), Lincoln Portrait (Copland), Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Britten), Joan of Arc and King David (Honegger), Incidental Music to Egmont (Beethoven), and Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev).

Mr. de Lancie was, for four years, host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Symphonies for Youth.  He has written and directed ten symphonic “plays” - ninety minute programs which are fully staged productions for orchestra.  Titles include Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (music by Korngold), The Bourgeois Gentleman (Strauss), The Abduction from the Seraglio (music by Mozart), and a vaudeville Carnival of the Animals (music by Saint Saens). These works were produced with the orchestras of Milwaukee, Los Angeles, St. Paul, Pasadena, and the Ravinia Festival. 

He also served as writer, director, and host of “First Nights” and adult concert series at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that explored the life and music of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Schumann, and Prokofiev.  These were fully integrated, fully staged productions with orchestra that received critical and popular acclaim.

As a stage director in opera, he has also directed productions of Tosca and Cold Sassy Tree for the Atlanta Opera and Madama Butterfly for San Antonio Opera..

Mr. de Lancie’s credits as an actor on film include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Bad Influence, The Onion Field, Taking Care of Business, Fearless, Multiplicity, Women on Top, Nicholas, Good Advice, Patinet 14, The Big Time, Tennius, Reign on Me, and, soon to be release, Pathology, Game, and You.  On television, he has been a guest on Hill Street Blues, West Wing, Hark, The Closer, Legend, Judging Amy, Picket Fences, Civil Wars, The Practice, Touched by an Angel, and Star Trek (as Q).

Equally acclaimed for his work on the stage, he has been a member of the American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, The South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, and the Old Globe Theater where he recently performed Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues.  Performances for which he has earned particular acclaim include Man and Superman, The Common Pursuit, Childe Byron, Art and the recent world premiere of Richard Breenburg’s The Naked Lady on the Appian Way.

Mr. de Lancie is a graduate of Kent State University and The Juilliard School.