John Angel

Who is John Angel?

John Birmingham, now John Angel, is an American filmmaker, actor and musician who, as of January 2012, changed his name to JohnAngel. John graduated Loyola Marymount University in 2000 with a BA in Screenwriting and Chapman University in 2005 with a MFA in Film Production. He makes musical feature films in which he writes the original musical numbers, stars in the films and writes/directs/produces, and in some cases edits his own films. John is best known for making two feature films in this style: Crazy Animal and The Vampires of Zanzibar. Crazy Animal sneak previewed in Park City at Tromadance 2006. Also played at the Cannes International Film Festival and Market in 2009 with Troma Entertainment and screened other film festivals and conventions. It has roles by John, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman and Brinke Stevens. It was released worldwide on March 31, 2009 by Troma Entertainment. John's second feature film, The Vampires of Zanzibar, has roles by Brandon Dicamillo and Chris Raab of Jackass/Viva La Bam/CKY and Eerie Von of Samhain/Danzig. The Vampires of Zanzibar is currently available to watch for free on YouTube, where it is approaching 200,000 views and John intends it to go into the millions of views, unless a distributor has purchased the film and changes this. Aside from making these musical feature films, John has worked as a production designer and set decorator on feature films such as the Full Moon Studios release Horror Vision and Mitch Rouse's major independent feature Nobody Knows Anything with cameos by Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Margaret Cho and many others. John has had the privilege to either star in or direct films involving Ed Asner, Pauly Shore, Peter Medak and many other Hollywood greats. His most recent projects include a film he is Co-producer on, cinematographer and acts in, by Tracy Lee Staton, called Deadlines, and John is a co-producer on and has a role as "Bruce" in the 2012 remake of Plan 9 From Outerspace titled Plan 9. John is also beginning development of his third feature film as writer/director/producer/star, currently untitled, slated for production 2013, with Johnny Johnson of Darkstone Entertainment as cinematographer and Tracy Lee Staton and Cory Greer as producers.