Meet John Machesky,

a theater trained actor, model, and screenwriter (oh my) based in Atlanta.

From “Please sir may I have some more?” in Oliver Twist in fifth grade to “What’s up scumbag?” on network television and promo commercials, acting has been a journey.

I graduated Indiana University in 2013 with a theater and psychology degree, because why study behavior only one way. I then moved to Chicago to pursue theater and take classes at Second City. I then moved to Y’allywood, Atlanta, to move from the boards to the screen.

I have appeared on television shows (Will Trent, The Oval, and Them), films (Rosehill and The Legend of Gilbert Flay), commercials (Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Home Depot), modeled (Sears, and Florsheim), hand modeled (Kroger and Florida Citrus), wrote my own shorts, and have even gotten to do my own stunts. I’ll run like Tom Cruise but I’ll let someone else jump off a building.

As commercially handsome as the boy next door, with eyes that say I may have someone locked in a basement, if you need someone to play guitar, baseball, football, take a punch, or crack a joke I’d love to be your patsy.