John Patrick Lowrie was born in 1952 in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Boulder, Colorado. At 16 he left home to make his way as a singer/guitarist/flautist/trombonist in a rock ‘n’ roll band, sleeping in parks and communes and getting to know several hippies. Surviving the draft, he graduated with highest distinction from the Indiana University School of Music and for a few years managed to make a living as a composer and guitarist in his acoustic fusion duo The Kiethe Lowrie Duet, garnering critical acclaim and opening for people who were much more famous than he was. He then decided to become an actor because the pay was better and the work was steadier. To this day he remains the only person he knows of who has done this. He met Ellen McLain, his wife of twenty-four years, in Arnhem, Holland on a European tour of a Broadway show and started his acting career in Palermo, Italy telling jokes to an opera house full of Sicilians who didn’t speak English. Success continues to dog his heels like an angry Pekinese.

John and his wife now reside in Seattle, where they divide their professional time between acting in live theater and voice acting for computer games and radio dramas.

The Author

Camel Press will release his first novel, Dancing With Eternity, on September 1, 2011.

The Actor

Mr. Lowrie has worked the last twenty-five years as an actor in theater, film and television and as a voice actor in radio dramas and computer games. His credits include:

Radio Dramas



The role of Sherlock Holmes in …

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (76 episodes)

The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (29 episodes)

Various characters in The Adventures of Harry Nile

Computer games



Lord of the Rings: The War in the North … Beleram/Galar

Halo: Reach … Sword Control

Halo 3: ODST… Kinsler, additional voices

Infamous … Warden Harms

F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin … Harold Keegan

Left 4 Dead … Houseboat radio

Half-Life 2: Episode Two … citizens, misc. characters

Team Fortress 2 … The Sniper

Half-Life 2: Episode One … citizens, misc. characters

The Suffering: Ties That Bind …The Man

The Matrix Online … Agent Gray

Half-Life 2 … citizens, misc. characters

The Suffering … Hermes/Sergei

No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way … Bruno Lawrie

The Operative: No One Lives Forever … Bruno Lawrie

Police Quest: SWAT 2 … Tammany

Total Annihilation … Narrator

Betrayal in Antara … Tyre/Enkudi/Mackey

Film

Clawed, dir. by Karl Kozak … Mayor Potts

A Relative Thing, dir. by Garrett Bennett … The Lawyer

Trust Me, dir. by Jeff Probst … The Cook

Theater

Two and a half decades of theater has meant many, many productions. Mr. Lowrie has performed in plays of Wm. Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Noel Coward, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, Don DeLillo and many others as well as many musicals, including the original productions of Das Barbecü, Play It By Heart, Stunt Girl and The Gypsy King.

The Musician and Composer

Lowrie was a professional guitarist and composer for many years forming and leading the acoustic/fusion duo, The Kiethe Lowrie Duet, from 1977 to 1984. A sampling of his compositions:

Old Money, a musical, 1996 (with Frank Simcoe)

Conversations With Piltdown Man for chamber orchestra and soprano, 1988

In a Strange Land for large orchestra, 1987

Beta Lyrae for chorus, trombone, and percussion, 1985

String Quartet, 1985

Suite for Guitar, 1985

Adrenaline Shock, electronic tape, 1984

The View From Phobos, electronic tape, 1984

Music for Double Bass and Percussion, 1983

Aldebaran, electronic tape, 1983

Six Three-part Inventions, for piano, 1982

Brass Quintet, 1975

Music for duo and solo guitar:

Balance, 1984

Uptown, 1981

Cold Front, 1981

Donut, 1981

The Accession of Queen Anne, 1980

Aquamarine, 1980

Bridge, 1980

Firetime, 1979

For Ramona, 1979

Privileged Situation, 1978

Snow Queen, 1977

The Great Train Robbery, 1977

Equinox, 1977

Sweet Michelobe, 1976