Mary Donnet Johnson Artistic Statement

As a child I wanted to be a psychiatrist, a spy, or a circus performer. As a playwright, I believe I combine all three aspirations in this one endlessly fascinating vocation.

Over the past decade I’ve had plays produced in eight states and included in several respected journals. The subjects I care to write about seem to resonate with a wide variety of audiences. Recently, one young man came up to me after watching one of my pieces about the devastation autism can wreak on a family and the miracles a simple interaction with nature can provide and declared with tears in his eyes, “You really f*cked me up!” which was perhaps the most passionate review I’ve ever received and I cherish it. Moments like these only make me more ambitious to create theatre that not only moves and entertains, but might even change the world for the better, one audience member at a time.