Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey N. Johnson’s first play, Affair at the Hotel Opal, was produced at the Potomac Playmakers 4th Annual One-Act Festival in Hagerstown, Maryland. His short story collection OTHER FINE GIFTS won an Ippy Award for Best Regional Fiction/Mid-Atlantic, and his novel THE HUNGER ARTIST was a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award. He has also been awarded the Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize from The Sewanee Review and a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). His fiction and poetry have been widely published, including Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, Cream City Review, Dos Passos Review, The Evansville Review, Gargoyle, Northern Virginia Review, Potomac Review, Red...

Jeffrey N. Johnson’s first play, Affair at the Hotel Opal, was produced at the Potomac Playmakers 4th Annual One-Act Festival in Hagerstown, Maryland. His short story collection OTHER FINE GIFTS won an Ippy Award for Best Regional Fiction/Mid-Atlantic, and his novel THE HUNGER ARTIST was a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award. He has also been awarded the Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize from The Sewanee Review and a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). His fiction and poetry have been widely published, including Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, Cream City Review, Dos Passos Review, The Evansville Review, Gargoyle, Northern Virginia Review, Potomac Review, Red Rock Review, South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Wisconsin Review, and War, Literature and the Arts.

Scripts

Affair at the Hotel Opal

by Jeffrey Johnson

Synopsis

A man on vacation in Paris with his wife is on a quest to find the bench his father once sat on with his arm around a beautiful French woman during the the city's liberation in World War II. With an old photo in-hand and the help of a friendly waiter, the man is on the verge of finding this one-in-a-million bench, but it may be the mysterious Lady Madonna who holds the key to understanding what happened to the...

A man on vacation in Paris with his wife is on a quest to find the bench his father once sat on with his arm around a beautiful French woman during the the city's liberation in World War II. With an old photo in-hand and the help of a friendly waiter, the man is on the verge of finding this one-in-a-million bench, but it may be the mysterious Lady Madonna who holds the key to understanding what happened to the father he never knew.

The View from Hogback Mountain

by Jeffrey Johnson

Synopsis

Two friends from the city take a day-trip to the mountains and find despair under the beauty they long for.

Two friends from the city take a day-trip to the mountains and find despair under the beauty they long for.

Nine and a Half Minutes

by Jeffrey Johnson

Synopsis

Poking fun at the very idea of a ten minute play, a reluctant leading man is coaxed into a volatile encounter with a beautiful woman. Is she the “girl” of his dreams or his worst nightmare? The clock is ticking.

Poking fun at the very idea of a ten minute play, a reluctant leading man is coaxed into a volatile encounter with a beautiful woman. Is she the “girl” of his dreams or his worst nightmare? The clock is ticking.