John Kamys, is an award winning composer, songwriter, vocalist, and visual artist.

He has written numerous songs, one complete musical, composed fourteen scores for the theater, directed one film and served a three-year appointment as composer and music director for The Goodman Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol.

In 1996, he received his first Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Original Music for the play Cloud Tectonics, and garnered a second nomination, and the award, in 1998, for the play El Paso Blue.

A 1999, Best New Artist GLAMA nominee, he has since released six full-length-cd recordings of original songs, performing on four under the pseudonym Jinx Titanic. The Jinx Titanic recordings, spanning 2002 to 2007, have received three OMA nominations and the 2004 OMA for Outstanding Production. Songs from these recordings can be heard in several feature films, as well as numerous television programs and Bunim-Murray produced reality-shows for MTV Networks, along with the MTV Movie Award winning spoof United 300.

The 2009 documentary Stirring Water marked his filmmaking debut. Shot on location in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Stirring Water employs elements of classic newsreel style, silent-era intertitling and a soundscape comprised of field recordings and original music. The film, received its World Premiere at the 2009 Washington DC Independent Film Festival in the African Diaspora program as a competition finalist.

In the realm of visual arts, he is recognized for his highly conceptual monochromatic color-field paintings. These works, often possessing destructive elements, preserve narrative text and mixed media under layers of high-gloss enamel.

John Kamys is a Graduate of DePaul University and recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Grants, two Illinois Arts Council Grants, and two Chicago Foundation for Education teaching grants. He lives in Chicago.