Willie Johnson

Willie Johnson is a New York-based writer and high school teacher. Works include The Followers (Winner, 2018 Dr. R.J Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights Award); Age of Extinction (Verso Loft, Brooklyn); The Virgin Forest (Reading, Core Artist Ensemble Podcast Plays); Blue Balls (2016 LaBute New Theater Festival, St. Louis Actors' Studio); This Is Not a Story (Reading, Core Artist Ensemble); Ice Cream Man (Winner, Audience Favorite, 2015 Unchained Festival). His essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, Jacobin, and the Thomson Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Oleander Review, Litro NY, The Dovetail Collective, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. He is a proud member of the United Federation of Teachers.
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With Theater in Asylum: Hephaestus

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