Biography of David (2) Johnston

David Johnston's works have been performed and read at the New Group, the Neighborhood Playhouse, Henry Street Settlement, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Twelve Miles West and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. He was named one of Time Out's Playwrights to Watch for in 2006. New York productions: With Blue Coyote Theater Group, Busted Jesus Comix (GLAAD nominee), Busted Jesus Comix Plus Three More Plays!, A Bush Carol, or George Dubya and the Xmas of Evil, The Standards of Decency Project. With director Kevin Newbury, Candy & Dorothy (GLAAD nominee) and The Eumenides. Los Angeles productions: Cow, For Those Of Us Who Have Lived in France, Saturday with Martin, and Busted Jesus Comix, Moving Arts, Candy & Dorothy , at Rude Guerrilla. Publications: The Eumenides, (Playing With Canons, published by New York Theatre Experience, Inc.) Leaving Tangier , (Samuel French, produced by Blue Coyote); New York Telephone Conversation and The Revolution Will Commence at Chase Manhattan, (Rosebud); Death is Cold Like Barbie and I Dream of Ezra Pound (Stage Press Weekly). Playwriting awards include the Alan Minieri Memorial Award, Theater Oxford Ten Minute Play Contest, Turnip Festival One-Act Play Competition, the B.W. Morris Playwright Residency at the University of Cincinnati, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation Grant, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. Education: B.A. from the College of William and Mary, the Professional Workshop at Circle in the Square. Member: Actors Equity, Dramatists Guild, Charles Maryan's Playwrights/Directors Workshop and Blue Coyote Theater Group.