Johnna Adams

Johnna’s plays are an eclectic menagerie containing meditations on grief, wild farcical verse plays, southern gothic supernatural plays and hard to explain, in-your-face tragicoms. She is the 2011 recipient of the Princess Grace Award. On her wild ride as a playwright so far, she has mingled with an all-inmate cast at the Mitchellville Theatre Project at the Iowa Women’s Correctional Institution (In the Absence of Angels, 2006) and participated in a fully nude talkback in front of a nude audience at the Naturist Society’s Western Naturist Gathering at the Lupin Naturist Club (Nude on the Beach, 2002). Other plays include Gidion’s Knot;The Anguisher; Hripsime; Hued Moll; Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens; The Angel Eaters Trilogy (Angel Eaters, Rattlers, and 8 Little Antichrists); Sans Merci, Cockfighters and The Sacred Geometry of S&M Porn. She is a past Reva Shiner Award winner, winner of the OC Weekly’s Best Original Play award (twice), finalist for the Princess Grace Award, finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Award, finalist for the National Art’s Club’s Playwrights First Prize; finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and New York Innovative Theatre Award nominee. Flux Theatre Ensemble will produce her play Sans Merci in its 2012-13 season in New York. Her play Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens will be produced by Impetuous Theatre in 2012. Johnna’s plays Angel Eaters, Rattlers, 8 Little Antichrists, Sans Merci, Cockfighters and The Sacred Geometry of S&M Porn are published by Original Works Publishing (www.originalworksonline.com). Johnna’s plays have been read or produced by The Alliance Theatre Lab, The New Group, Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Astoria Performing Arts Center , Peculiar Works Productions,, Impetuous Theater, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bootleg Theatre, Unknown Theater, The Blank Theatre, Wordspace, Write Act Repertory, Rude Guerilla Theater Company, the Hunger Artists Theatre Ensemble, Company of Angels, Moving Arts, The Bug Theater, the Women’s Theater Company of LA, O Henry Birthday Club Society, STAGEStheater, The Curtis Theater, Hunter College, DePaul University, Chapman College, Irvine Valley College, Fullerton College and the Chicago Dramatists Workshop. Johnna graduated from the DePaul University Theatre School with a BFA in Acting and is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College with Tina Howe and with Mark Bly.