John Haag
SAG, AFTRA, AEA
Tel: 413-210-8027
John began his acting career in numerous Off-Off Broadway plays. He’s acted in many productions in tours and regional plays, and in soaps, films, and TV. He studied with master teachers Bill Hickey and Mel Shapiro in New York.
His most recent stage work was as Roger, a lead role in The Pitch, a world premiere play by Stan Freeman at the Majestic Theater in western Massachusetts. John reprised the same role in a film version of the play this year.
John has also worked in voiceover and audiobook narration for almost twenty years. He has worked in industrial and corporate films, as well as radio spots and public service announcements, and voiced characters in video games, including Thief 3. He also narrated a WGBY PBS documentary, Things That Go Bump in the Night.
John has recorded over 200 titles for the National Library Service for the National Library Service’s Talking Books program at the Library of Congress. The program provides audio access for vision impaired people under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Possessing great versatility, John has narrated a wide variety of genres and styles for NLS: murder mysteries, fantasy series, action adventures, black comedy, historical fiction, westerns, romances, thrillers, horror stories, and science fiction.
With a warm, expressive voice, John speaks with authority, while at the same time utilizing a conversational, natural delivery, as if the listener were sitting with him in the booth. John is seasoned enough to locate the heart of the piece, bringing it to life with a variety of pace, tone, and inflection appropriate to its purpose. Originally a stage and film actor, John also has the acting chops to carry long narratives. A skilled character actor, with a great ear for tone and dialect and a voice flexible enough to convey the broad range of action, John can juggle a dizzying array of characters of both sexes. When John asked his audiobook coach, Robin Miles, what fiction genre(s) he might be best suited for, her answer was, “Mainstream fiction. You like to tell a good story from the heart.” Give John a good story and he’ll tell it from the heart.