John Fleming has been performing arts critic for the Times since 1991. His beat ranges from community theater to Broadway, modern dance to symphony orchestras. A onetime business editor at Georgia Trend magazine in Atlanta, he frequently writes about the finances and politics of the arts. Twice he won first-place awards from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, in 2002 for criticism and in 2004 for beat reporting on the Florida Orchestra.

Fleming has worked as a staff writer for Metropolis in Minneapolis-St. Paul and the Chicago Reader. He was an editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday magazine. From 2001 to 2007, he was on the executive board of the Music Critics Association of North America and now chairs its membership committee.

Phone: (727) 893-8716

E-mail: fleming@tampabay.com