Productions of Bill Johnson's Plays

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My play The Baggage Handler was produced as part of Funny Shorts: LOVE! at the Moe Auditorium at Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs.

The Baggage Handler is about a couple checking in the baggage for their next lives together.

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My play Heavenly Birth Insurance was presented by Emotive Artz at Short+Sweet Dubai, at the Junction in AlSerkal Avenue. Directed by Nikhil Mittal.

For more information about the festival, visit https://shortandsweet.org/festivals/shortsweet-theatre-dubai-2020

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My play Heavenly Birth Insurance was presented by Emotive Artz at Short+Sweet Dubai, at the Junction in AlSerkal Avenue. Directed by Nikhil Mittal.

For more information about the festival, visit Short+Sweet Dubai.

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My play The True Value of Heavenly Birth Insurance was performed in Brighton, England as part of the Mixed Doubles show at The Coach House by The Cliffhanger Company.

Christine Foster is the Artistic Director of The Cliffhanger Company. Her plays have been produced in Canada, Australia, Denmark, the United States, and Mexico. Her extensive credits range from comedy writing for Martin Short to CBS' Friday the 13th and CTV's The Littlest Hobo.

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My play The Baggage Handler was performed during Diez Minutos, San Miguel's First Annual 10-Minute Play Festival in Mexico.

In The Baggage Handler, a couple getting ready to be reborn learn something about themselves and each other when they check in the baggage for their next life. Christine Foster directed the production.

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My play The True Cost of Heavenly Birth Insurance was performed at the Little Fish Theater, Season 11, The Country's Best Short Plays. In the play, a heavenly insurance salesman realizes the woman asking about birth insurance—which involves trading a child's well-being for the beneficiary's—is the mother who traded his own health in a past life.

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My play Betting the Karmic House was performed at Potomac Falls High School in Sterling, Virginia. In Betting, a couple in a heavenly casino discover they can use the karma of their next life together to place bets.

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The True Cost of Heavenly Birth Insurance was also performed in the tenth annual North Park Playwright Festival.

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Martha the Messiah was performed as part of the Willamette Writers conference Actor's Lab. Martha is a female apostle who believes the way to becoming the top apostle is by getting rid of Jesus.

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The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet in Heaven was performed at the Willamette Writers conference.

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The Baggage Handler was staged at The White Mountain School in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Directed by Sam Brown; the cast included Ronan Casey, Titi Angelova, and Nick Corter.

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My play A Test of Compassion was read as part of Playwright's Express in Los Angeles, a benefit for FirstStage Theater in Hollywood.

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The Baggage Handler was also staged at the Black Box Theatre in Palm Springs, California, as part of the Playwrights' Circle Short Play Festival, directed by Eric Olson.

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My play Betting the Karmic House has been published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays for Three or More Actors by Smith and Kraus, edited by D. L. Lepidus.

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The Catholic Schoolgirl and the Gay Klingon was performed as part of Toy Boat Production's Choke on My Heart show at The Coho Theater, directed by Aaron Ross.

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In The Caregiver, an elderly man cares for a paralyzed, racist woman. When he offers her a pill to end her life, the play explores whether his decision is moral or immoral. Staged by First Stage Theater in Los Angeles.

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My play Judas was performed as part of The Provincetown Theatre Company play festival in Massachusetts.

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On the Road to Camp Lazarus was read as part of Another Country Production's SLAMBoston reading series, directed by David W. Frank.

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Satan Offers Lassie a Room of Her Own was performed by Another Country Productions in Boston and the North Park Play Festival in San Diego. Directed by Adam Sussman.

Available for production.

The Baggage Handler, another one of my after life short plays, was performed in New York as part of the Creative Mechanics/E-MergingWriters 10-Minute play competition, STAGE THIS! The Best 10-Minute Plays We Could Find festival. The play was voted by the audience as best of fest.

In The Baggage Handler a couple getting ready to be reborn learn something about themselves and each other when they check in the baggage for their next life.

Handler and the other plays produced in the festival are available in an anthology put out by Creative Mechanics.

Directed by: Shannon Maddox
Fred: Terry J. Long
Muriel: Maryann Walsh
Baggage Handler: Robert Neal Marshall

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The Baggage Handler was a finalist in the Speaking Ring One Act Play Festival in Chicago.

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ArtWork Enterprises, producers of the Ashland New Plays Festival, performed Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial as part of their Fourth 10-Minute Play Slam. It was directed by Kevin Berg, and performed by Michael Meyer as Fred, and Kate Sullivan as Muriel.

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Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial was performed as part of the Pregnant Chad Play Festival on October 7th. The festival was in Windsor, New York, at the Kowawese Unique Area.

The director for the production was Anthony Kollar, who attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, studing with Max Fischer among others.

Fred was played by Anthony Valbiro. He's been performing professionally since the age of 11, in all areas of theatre, film and cabaret. His one man show 'Anthony Nobody, there's a world outside' was performed recently in an extended run at the Duplex in N.Y.C. and he is currently performing in a series of reading and productions in the tri-state area. He plays the role of Fred in Pre-Life.

Misti Tindiglia played Muriel. She has done commericals, voice overs, off off Broadway productions, industrials and movies. She has worked with directors as well known as Stanley Tucci, in "The Imposters", Tim Robbins in "The Cradle Will Rock" and Tim Van Patten on "The Sopranos", as well as working on independent films that have gone on to festivals throughout the country.

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Pre-Life, Pre-Nuptial was performed three nights as part of the Brief Acts Company's Summer 2004, a festival of short plays, at the John Houseman Too Theater in New York City.

Directed by Anthony Galluccio.

The cast: Muriel - Mary Albertoli, Fred - Richard Gleason

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Yours, From the Heat of My Heart, full length play produced by Firehouse Theater in Portland, Oregon.

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In Our Image, a full length play produced by Keith Scales as radio theater for K-BOO.