John Laurence Seymour (January 18, 1893, in Los Angeles – February 1, 1986, in San Francisco) was an American composer and playwright.

[1] During this time, he also served as the head of the drama department at the Sacramento Junior College, a position he held until 1950.

[1] One of Seymour's operas, In the Pasha's Garden, received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award.

[1] It was first performed on January 24, 1935, at the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of Ettore Panizza, with Lawrence Tibbett in the title role.

The opening premiere of the opera's matinee performance was a fundraiser for the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance.

[3] He wrote another opera, Ollanta, el Jefe Kolla, that received awards in the cultural division of the Bolivarian Games in La Paz in 1977.

Seymour was also skilled in learning languages, and translated several dramas from French and Russian into English.

[2] Before his death in 1986, he wrote a short autobiography which is now held in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University.