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David (2) Johnston

DAVID (2) JOHNSTON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  represented by elaine Devlin

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.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Busted Jesus Comix         Candy & Dorothy         Coney         Conversations On Russian Literature         Cow         Effie Jean In Tahiti         Eumenides, The         Evil Time         For Those Of Us Who Have Lived In France         Funeral Home in Brooklyn, A         Leaving Tangier         Lesson, A         Letters         Mothra Is Waiting         Oresteia, The         Play Russia         Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast         Standards Of Decency Project         White Star         Yes Yes Yes

Busted Jesus Comix

Synopsis:
Marco is having an interview for a job at a coffee shop in Manhattan. He recounts how he got to this situation. He is from Florida - he worked in a comic shop. He produced his own comic "Busted Jesus Comix" which told the story of two teenage boys who high on drugs have sex together and then rape a baby boy. He is prosecuted for obscenity and put on probation. One of the terms of the probation is he keeps away from minors - but as he is a minor himself this is difficult and he is banned from drawing

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Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Candy & Dorothy

Synopsis:
This comic fantasy finds Dorothy Day (the activist who founded the Catholic Worker) trapped in the bureaucracy of the afterlife with Candy Darling (the andy Warhol discovery) as her caseworker. Forced to come to terms with each other, they end up appearing on cooking shows and giving lectures on Warhol and Karl Marx. When a young librarian on the Lower east Side finds her life coming undone, Candy and Dorothy begin popping up.

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Theater Three, NY    2006

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Coney

Synopsis:
an evening of readings and performances benefiting the Glen Wild animal Rescue which provides a safe haven for abused and abandoned animals, works with at-risk youth to teach proper animal care, and trains rescue dogs to work with wounded veterans. the event features a sneak peak of David Johnston's new play Coney, the return of Matthew Freeman's notorious the White Swallow, 3 Flies by Barbara Wiechmann, Silly Man in Love and more. Due to adult subject matter, this evening is unsuitable for children.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Heavy Petting: A Night of Unlikely Romance.

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Access theatre
380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    28 Oct 2011

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extract

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Conversations On Russian Literature

Synopsis:
In Conversations on Russian Literature, we return to Russia where post-Cold War espionage and intrigue collides with Russia's literary masters.
- press release

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2009

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Cow

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Effie Jean In Tahiti

Synopsis:
This is a new musical for kids and their families, loosely based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia. This description is from the press release: "Princess effie Jean has made a bargain with Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, and now she's stuck in Tahiti guarding his jewels. Boring! even worse, she's supposed to kill any strangers that land on the island, and the first one who shows up is her own brother. Can the wily brother-sister duo find a way to trick Proteus? With the help of vain Cassiopeia (Queen of the Night Sky), a school of flounder, and some good old-fashioned song and dance, YOU BeT theY CaN!"
- nytheatre.com

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book David Johnston; music And lyrics Stephen Speights

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    40059

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Blue Coyote Theater Company

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Eumenides, The

Eumenides, The
a modern adaptation of the last play of the Oresteia of aeschylus.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aeschylus

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Evil Time

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Staged Reading At The South Orange Performing Arts Center In South Orange, New Jersey    08 Sep 2013

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For Those Of Us Who Have Lived In France

Synopsis:
the Francophile desires of Henry Kissinger, Mary, Queen of Scots, and modern-day American Lunelle Snead converge in For Those of Us Who Have Lived in Franc
- press release

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2009

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Funeral Home in Brooklyn, A

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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in "Standards of Decency Series 1", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Leaving Tangier

Synopsis:
Cooper has brought the ashes of his friend Oswin to be buried in the U.S. in accordance with his wishes. When Cooper was a young man they had been lovers. Oswin had also stipulated that he did not want a religious service but his sister is insistent that there will be a service. She strongly disapproves of her late brother's life style and the gay novels that he wrote. She cannot wait to get rid of Cooper. Her son, Tap arrives. He has read his uncles' novels and is keen to learn about him. Cooper tries to persuade Tap to come back to Tangier with him Tap refuses but says that he will try and get his mother to respect Oswin's wishes.

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1st Produced:
Abingdon Theater, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570    -

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 28 Samuel French Inc New York,    -

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Play One act. - - Gay, one act

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Lesson, A

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the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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Letters

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Mothra Is Waiting

Synopsis:
Mothra is Waiting finds two middle-aged chanteuses waiting for the cult-horror-classic bug Mothra to rescue them from their meaningless lives in Bridgeport to become Goddesses on Infant Island
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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2009

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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short play

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Oresteia, The

Synopsis:
agamemnon returns from the Trojan War to find his wife may not

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2007

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group & access Theater

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Play Russia

Synopsis:
upends the most revered Russian playwright, Chekhov, with hilarious results
- press release

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2009

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater group commissioned eight of their favorite playwrights to create new short plays meditating on new media and pornography. Presented in a stripped-down style, the plays are raunchy, funny, and surprisingly tender. Is our pornutopia breaking down our capacities for empathy and reflective thought, for intimacy and sustained attention? Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast uses a very old medium to explore what the new media are doing to us, publicly and privately, for better and for worse, at the place where technology, sex, and relationships collide.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Mac Rodgers, Jordan Seavey, Bruce Goldstone, Jacqueline Christy, Cheri Magid, Adam Szymkowicz

1st Produced:
Access theatre
380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    02 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Company

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Standards Of Decency Project

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater Group presents a program of nine new short plays that collectively the notions of decency and obscenity. the playwrights were asked to write a piece that includes at least one of these elements--nudity, blasphemy, and violence--in a manner that is fully warranted and justified (that is, that avoids mere gratuitousness or sensationalism), while also intended to offend conventional standards of decency. Blue Coyote says that it seeks to spark a discussion about the uses and abuses of transgressive performance onstage with this presentation.
nytheatre.com

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the playwrights Are: David Johnston, Mathew Freeman, David Foley, Brian Dykstra, Boo Killebrew, Laura Henry, Kristen Palmer, John Yearley, And Stan Richardson

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2006

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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White Star

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1st Produced:
Turnip Theater Festival, New York    -

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Yes Yes Yes

Synopsis:
Yes, Yes, Yes, a seedy bar, a male stripper, a lonely customer, and a copy of Finnegan's Wake cross paths, with interesting results. . .

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1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival

1st Published:
in "Standards of Decency Series 2: Blue Coyote's Happy Endings", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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