John Moore

About

Since 2001, John Moore has one of Denver's most respected and honored arts journalists. In that time, he started what is now the largest annual ongoing music festival in Denver, The UMS. He was named named one of America's 12 most influential theatre critics by American Theatre magazine. He founded The Denver Actors Fund, which in its first seven years has made more than $580,000 available to help Colorado theatre artists pay their medical bills. As a journalist, he has produced more than 5,000 feature stories, interviews, breaking news stories, enterprise pieces, essays, videos and podcasts. As Colorado's final remaining full-time theatre journalist, developed a pioneering new position underwritten by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. As the founder of the DCPA NewsCenter, he was recognized as a unique, shared media asset covering the entire Colorado theatre community and other cultural disciplines spanning film to music. That mission came to an end when the COVID shutdown closed the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and with little revenue expected before May 2021, the position, along with hundreds of others, was eliminated. And yet, combined with his previous life as a sports reporter and editor, he now has 34 widely varying years of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor, critic, columnist and web innovator with an tireless ethic and keen interest in new journalism technologies. His work has now appeared in more than 20 publications ranging from The New York Times to The Washington Post to The Writer Magazine (Boston).