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UK FILM REVIEW

Cassandra
★★★★★

The homeowner, Dr Field, is instantly recognizable as a man who is stoic yet ravaged by some form of painful history, thanks to an understated turn by John Fenner Mays. It is these two central performances that help lend the film a believability that makes the horror feel that much more effective.

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WINDY CITY TIMES

Dead Letter Office
by Scott C. Morgan

“The performance to watch is Mays as the tightly wound Christian. Mays' silence and glaring eyes compels you to find out what exactly occurred in Christian's past to make him the way he is today."

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AUSTIN CHRONICLE

Air Conditions

by Richard Whittaker

 

"A simple tale of an air conditioner repair man (the phenomenal John Fenner Mays) who finds himself in a sticky situation, it's every blue collar supernatural urban fear caught in Cthulhu-tinged nightmarish color."

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Kin

by Chris Jones

“And there are some committed performances from the grounded likes of John Fenner Mays, who plays a wound-tight Colonel floating around a familial world that Military values cannot control.”

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NEW CITY

Hamlet is Dead. no gravity

by Noel Schecter

“Sitting in judgement of his wife is Kurt(played with just the right amount of menace by John Fenner Mays) who has a few secrets of his own.

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CHICAGO HORROR FEST

Best Actor Nominee, 2013

Chicago Horror Film Festival—Air Conditions

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CHICAGO CRITIC

Dead Letter Office
by Tom Williams

“This thankless job is so routine that Christian (the movingly empathetic John Fenner Mays) finds himself caught in an obsessive-compulsive daily ritual."

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ROGEREBERT.COM

Air Conditions
by Collin Souter

Mays has a tough job here of carrying the film and having to convey the primal need for survival. It’s a great performance that reminds one of Ryan Reynolds’ work in “Buried” or James Franco in “127 Hours.”

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CHICAGO NOW

Three Sisters

by Katy Walsh

“Grieving over his own lost love, John Fenner Mays(Chebutykin) poignantly reeks of vodka and regret.”

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WINDY CITY TIMES

Hamlet is Dead. no gravity

by Scott C. Morgan

“While Mays’ dark mysterious moodiness certainly proves sinister for his take on Kurt.”

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SKETCHBOOK FESTIVAL

Best Actor, 2011

Collaboraction Theatre Co’s annual SKETCHBOOK Festival

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SUITE 101

Air Conditions
by Hari Navarro

“As an actor [John Fenner Mays] is always engaging and really embodies the essence of the story, this as his demeanour slowly simmers before boiling over and crashing into abject helpless and despair."

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