John was born in Miami, Florida, and attended Miami Killian High School where he first began his training as an actor. He later attended DePaul University's The Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois where he received a BFA in Acting. Other acting colleagues from the school include longtime friends Judy Greer, Michael Muhney, and Sean Gunn. In 1998 he joined a collective of theatre professionals and helped found Collaboraction, a multi-disciplinary theatre ensemble best known for its mixed media theatre festival Sketchbook which he co-created with Collaboraction artistic director Anthony Moseley. In 2001 Cabrera received an Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for his role as Nat in Collaboraction's stage production of Refuge.
Career
John moved to Los Angeles in 2000, where he began working as an actor in the fields of Television, Film, and Theater. He has worked at such theaters as Mark Taper Forum's Taper Too, and South Coast Repertory. Although he was first known as an actor, John is also a director of films, including the short filmAffair Game by Jessica Goldberg and the featurette The Man Who Invented the Moon written by longtime colleague and friend Lee Kirk and starring Sean Gunn. In 2007, John directed Jenna Fischer in a music video for singer songwriter Willie Wisely's single, "Through Any Window".
Writing
In recent years, however, John has increasingly focused his career as a screenwriter. In 2010, John wrote and directed the indie musical series The Homes for Lockerz. It stars Chelsea Kane and Gilmore Girls costars Sean Gunn and Keiko Agena, among others. The Homes is the story of a group of teenagers on a wild road trip across the United States. Each episode ends with a music video featuring songs written and recorded for the series and performed by young actors themselves. In 2008, it was announced that John had partnered with Cosimo De Tommaso to write and produce a Warner Premiereweb series entitled H+. In a 2009 interview, John calls it a Sci-fi story that explores our relationship to technology and how it defines us.
