FEATURE WRITER

Written extensively for the Guardian Arts Pages about theatre, modern dance, film and classical music. On contract for five years at the Guardian Profile, writing the most in-depth features in British journalism. Subjects included film directors David Lynch, Werner Herzog and Mike Leigh and composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich.

John's travel journalism has included a solo jaunt up the Amazon to investigate Ecotourism, a odyssey across China and a hitching trip across Europe using the Internet to set up rides. Nominated in the category of Digital Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

PRINT JOURNALISM

High-profile articles for Guardian Arts and the Guardian Saturday Review, and for most national broadsheets and magazines in the UK and Ireland, including Time Magazine, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Observer, Time Out, and The Irish Times.

Philip Glass

When less means more - The Guardian.

The son of Jewish immigrants, he worked as a plumber and New York cab driver to fund his music studies. Now one of the most influential - and controversial - contemporary composers, he is seen as the founding father of minimalism.

Steve Reich

'It's not a requiem' - The Guardian.

The murder of American journalist (and violinist) Daniel Pearl has inspired composer Steve Reich to write the most political work of his career.

David Lynch

Wild at art - The Guardian.

Raised in respectable Middle America, his first love was painting but he found fame as the 'Tsar of the Bizarre', directing offbeat films which suggested something disturbing behind the picket fences and tranquil lawns of the US heartland.

Frank McGuinness

A happy marriage - The Guardian.

Playwright Frank McGuinness has just finished his 20-year project to translate the whole of Ibsen - and he's missing it already.

Kaija Saariaho

A libretto of one's own - The Guardian.

Female opera composers are still a tiny minority. The world's best talk to John O'Mahony

Romeo Castellucci

Christ … what is that smell? - The Guardian.

Mark Antony with cancer, a man severing his own tongue and, now, an excrement-spewing Jesus – stage provocateur Romeo Castellucci says his quest to shock has real purpose

Dickie Beau

A truly spine-tingling experience - The Guardian.

With Victorian theatrics, disembodied voices and an low-frequency generating infrasound device, Dickie Beau’s multimedia seance will be felt as much as heard

Brett Bailey

Exhibit B, a human zoo - The Guardian.

South Africa’s fearless theatre-maker Brett Bailey has made a career out of tackling the most difficult aspects of race. His new show features black people in cages, in reference to real 19th-century human zoos – and even some of the performers are uneasy about it

Robert Wilson

Mystery plays - The Guardian.

Born in Waco, Texas, he was set for a career in business administration but dropped out, moved to New York and discovered avant garde theatre. Lauded by some as a surrealist visionary, he has also been denounced as a charlatan.

Werner Herzog

The enigma of Werner H - The Guardian.

Born in war-time Germany, he wrote a prize-winning screenplay at the age of 15 and made his first film at 20. Now one of cinema's most controversial and iconoclastic directors, he is also credited with leading a renaissance in European film.

Merce Cunningham

The dancing master - The Guardian.

He redefined ballet with his energy, innovation and collaboration with the composer John Cage, his creative and romantic partner for half a century. Now 81, and canonised by the avant garde, he is still at the cutting edge as he comes to London with new work involving computer animation.

Valery Gergiev

Demon king of the pit - The Guardian.

It's high-altitude early morning on a rickety old Tupolov flying out of St Petersburg and Valery Gergiev is curled up on a seat by the window, sleeping like a swarthy, stubble-chinned baby.

Dmitry Krymov

'Chaos is a magnet' - The Guardian.

What do you get when a set designer is given free rein to take over a show? Colliding pianos, magic prams and Sputnik on ice. We meet a Russian stage visionary in Moscow

Artangel

Hear hear - The Guardian.

At 9.02am every morning this week, Radio 4 listeners have been surprised by strange aural happenings. John O'Mahony asks leading sound artists if their work is moving closer to the mainstream

Ravi Shankar

A hodgepodge of hash, yoga and LSD - The Guardian.

IOn the eve of his last ever gig in Europe, sitar giant Ravi Shankar tells John O'Mahony why the 60s got India wrong, how his daughters give him hope - and why Hendrix annoyed him.

Gods and rockers

The Guardian.

Is the legacy of the ancient world stifling modern Greek drama? Continuing our European theatre series, John O'Mahony reports from Athens

Micheal Keegan-Dolan

'Ballet in the Bog' - The Guardian.

Ireland finally has a modern dance scene - thanks to one anarchic choreographer. John O'Mahony reports

Laurie Anderson

Adults are Idiots - The Guardian.

The spiky-haired queen of avant-garde pop has some new targets: advertising, the war on terror - and her own stage sets. Laurie Anderson tells all to John O'Mahony

Tom Murphy

'There is a rage within me' - The Guardian

In his basement study in Dublin's gentrified southside, Tom Murphy is struggling to find a word, an idea, anything, to sum up the creative impulse behind his dark, inscrutable work.

Carry on up the Amazon?

Ecotourism Travel Feature - The Guardian.

Can you visit the world's greatest ecosystem without contributing to its destruction? John O'Mahony heads into the Brazilian jungle to find out

War games

The Guardian.

Ravaged by years of conflict, Chechnya is in the painful process of reconstruction. Two weeks ago, its star football team emerged from the wilderness to face a Russian side. The match became an incendiary focus of bitter enmities, reports John O'Mahony

The new believers

The Guardian.

Russia's war on God is over. But an alliance between the orthodox church and the state has led to a disturbing campaign of religious intolerance. John O'Mahony reports

A people skating on thin ice

The Guardian.

Once it was a thriving fishing port, now it's a ghost town where only the old, the young and the sick are left. John O'Mahony visits a city whose harrowing decline reflects a country in crisis

Massif attack

Hairy Biker Feature - The Guardian.

Need an incentive to get fit? Then set your sights on a cycling holiday. John O'Mahony finds Sardinia offers the right balance of tough mountain trails and pristine beaches for post-ride swims