John Balma
- Actor
Raised to be a cowboy, John fled his family's horse-drawn dreams and
headed to San Francisco to pursue a career in theater. Trained at San
Francisco State University, John was a founding member of both Reflex
Action Theater and the legendary Z Collective. While in SF he appeared
in over 30 productions at Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Shakespeare in
the Park, Asian American Theatre, and others, including two seasons in
Europe with SF's Word for Word performance troupe. While in college he
briefly considered a career in Genetic Research until a little math
problem in one of his labs convinced him this was not to be.
