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JOEL DRAKE JOHNSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd |
Joel Drake Johnson is a resident playwright at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater where three of his play have been produced: "Before My Eyes" (Jeff nomination), "The End of the Tour" (Jeff nomination) and "Four Places" (a finalist in the National Art's Club's Best New Play of 2006). All three plays were directed by Sandy Shinner. "The End of the Tour" was chosen for inclusion in the anthology "New Plays From Chicago" and was published once again by The Broadway Play Publishing Company. Johnson got his start as a writer at Chicago's critically acclaimed Econo-Art Theatre under the artistic direction of Lynn Baber, Barb Reeder and Marc Silvia who produced five of his plays. "As the Beaver", a critical and popular hit for Chicago's Zebra Crossing Theatre was also produced at the Burbage Theatre in LA and the Vortex Theatre in Austin, TX. Other plays have been produced at the New Playwrights' Theatre in Ashland, Oregon; the West Bank Theatre and The Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC; Manbites Dog in Durham; The Road Theatre in LA and the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Johnson won Illinois Arts Council grants for "Blind Hearts", "The Fall to Earth" and "A Blue Moon". "A Blue Moon" was first produced at the Chicago Dramatists Theatre and, in the fall of 2002, it was nominated for best new work by the Joseph Jefferson Committee. The Jeff Award winning production of "The Fall to Earth" was first produced (in an extended run) by Steppenwolf Theatre (2004). It was published by Broadway Play Publishing in the fall of 2006. Steppenwolf Theatre subsequently commissioned Johnson to write "A Blameless Life" and "Tranquillity Woods" which they produced in the summer of 2005 and '07, respectively. Johnson is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Pen America Center and the Chicago Dramatists advisory board. He has taught playwrighting at Northwestern University, DePaul University and Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire. He lives in Chicago and New Buffalo, Michigan where he is working on a third commission from Steppenwolf Theatre.
Plays by Joel Drake Johnson
As the Beaver | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94861 | |||
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Before My Eyes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70759 | |||
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Synopsis: | The loving - but often strained relationship between a gay man and his parents | |||||
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Blameless Life, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94862 | |||
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Blind Hearts | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94863 | |||
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Blue Moon, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70760 | |||
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Synopsis: | Carol is having a bad day, a horrible year and a terrible life. | |||||
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Boys Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Jan 2011 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113995 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | When the American Dream is out of reach, what is a man to do? In The Boys Room, ensemble playwright Joel Drake Johnson walks the line exquisitely between laughter and tears. Two middle aged brothers try to escape their responsibilities and race each other back to their boyhood bedroom-that sanctuary where they can dream and scheme without the pressure of the outside world. One is unemployed; the other is making a living but is not sure why he should live. The women in their lives are knocking on the door, filled with questions and, sometimes, love | |||||
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End Of The Tour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66845 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Most of this play takes place in a nursing home where a disgruntled, flamboyant, elderly mother is recovering from a bad fall. With her middle aged, recently divorced daughter by her side, she awaits the arrival of her long estranged gay son who is bringing his lover for a brief tour of his hometown and his damaging past. | |||||
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Fall To Earth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Broadway Publishing Company, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66846 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A mother travels with her grown daughter to claim the body of her son who, after a disastrous flirtation in a local bar, checks into a motel and kills himself. The play explores the past and present relationship of mother to her son and estranged daughter. | |||||
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First Grade, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94864 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Sydney a teacher tries to help her physical therapist but things get out of control involving her depressed daughter, her Ritalin addicted grandson, her ex-husband who still lives with her and a class of First Graders | |||||
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Four Places | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | NorthWestern University Press 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0810125742 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89611 | |||
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| A family matriarch tries to keep control of her children | |||||
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Guide for the Perplexed, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94865 | |||
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Synopsis: | A prisoner is released and as part of his parole conditions he must live with his sister's husband. This Doug reluctantly does. Then a woman he has been corresponding with whilst in jail turns up bearing gifts | |||||
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Tranquillity Woods | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94866 | |||
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