"Wild Bill" Johnson

This play examines the stress of being Santa Claus. Meet and Greets with children are the only break he gets from the bureaucracy of the job. Santa becomes increasingly frustrated while spending a day dealing with off season meetings in Santa’s Village. The outlandishness of the meetings leads him to quit. It is up to the ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future to convince Santa to return to the North Pole.

Princess Lily spends her days riding around her forest on her unicorn Delilah, dealing with the actions of a greedy wizard who is collecting ingredients for a potion to turn lead into gold. The wizard takes items from three individuals, then kidnaps Delilah. Lily and the three individuals set out to rescue Delilah.

After his GPS took him on a wild ride, Jack meets Angela on a deserted road. They spend a couple of hours trading their tales of woe, and he begins to fall in love. He takes her home. Soon after, he realizes she left her purse in his car. He attempts to return it, but is immediately detained by the police, and charged with her murder. A tale unfolds that only one person fully understands, the victim.

Spoilers: The play slowly develops the main character, Jack Bishop. He has loyal friends, liked by his coworkers and has a kind heart. A GPS malfunction leads him to a deserted road where he meets Emily. He offers her a ride home, and they share their story. She just ended an abusive relationship, and he tells his tale of dating woe. He eventually reveals his girlfriend passed away, and the grief caused him to quit teaching, and he is struggling to find a purpose in his new life. Emily helps him realize his place is back in the classroom, and he begins to develop feelings for her. After dropping her off, Jack realizes Emily left her purse in his car. He tries to return it and is arrested for Emily’s murder. The second act shows Jack being interrogated by the local sheriff. Jack, along with the audience, is confused as to what is going on, until it is revealed that Emily has been missing for 10 years. He repeatedly tells the story of the previous night but is eventually contradicted by the sheriff interrogating him. As the play continues, it is revealed that Jack is being interrogated by Emily’s murderer. The questions the audience ponders through the second act is: Will the sheriff get away with the murder he committed 10 years ago? Will Jack go to jail for a murder he did not commit? How did he spend an evening with a woman who was murdered 10 years ago?

Santa Claus spends the day dealing with off season meetings in Santa’s Village. He becomes increasingly frustrated with the outlandishness of the meetings.

Two tourists have a conversation with a businessman on a New York City subway that changes their lives. Fifteen years later, they take the same subway ride with his brother.

Spoiler: The first scene takes place on 9/11/2001. The business man convinces the tourists to wait a couple hours before visiting the observation deck.
Ten years later, the couple visit the 9/11 memorial with the brother of the business man who perished that day to honor his memory.

Brian takes Susan to a nursing home on a first date, claiming they have the best food in town. They sit at a table with Earl, a random resident that Brian has been visiting. When Brian leaves for the restroom, Susan finds out that Earl is only pretending to be senile, and tells her about Brian.

A reporter is interviewing Stephen King about his early career. A fan repeatedly tries to get an autograph from Mr. King, but is stopped each time by an overprotective waiter who protects Mr. King from injury or harassment.

A heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of a father's love for his daughter. The play begins with a cryptic phone call to the father and the birth of his daughter, then progresses through various scenes in the life of Lily and her father. Each scene is an event from a year in her life, from ages 4 to 24. The play covers things from mundane events like making a mothers day card and going to a musical to life altering events like the suicide of a friend and deciding what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. After her happy ending, the play cuts back to the phone call. (spoiler) The father realizes his wife has just had a miscarriage. The entire play took place in his mind, imagining the life of the daughter he just lost.

A one man play set in a therapist's office. The play covers 8 sessions over about two years. Each session covers the journey of a widower from the time he loses his wife until a few days after the two year anniversary of his loss. Each session goes into how he is dealing with grief and his attempts to move on and rebuild his life. This play is semi autobiographical. I lost my girlfriend when I was 42, three and a half weeks after our 25th anniversary. I changed the play to the loss of a wife to
streamline things, and because I have addressed the concept of “pseudo widowhood” in another play. Aside from that,
everything mentioned in the play happened, but not necessarily on the days they are mentioned.

Description: A Play about star crossed lovers set in modern time. Romeo (the son of lesbians) and Jules (the child of
Evangelical Christians) meet in geometry class. Afterwards, Jules shares his secret. Her legal name is Juliet, and his mother does not know he’s a boy. They fall in love quickly, giving Jules the courage to tell his mother the truth. It goes horribly wrong, and Jules prepares to commit suicide, but Romeo comes to his rescue

The play gives a brief history of Broadway told from the perspective of two theater seats in a Broadway venue. It uses their fictional theater (which is an amalgamation of several different Broadway theaters) as a way of showing how Broadway shows and the Theater District has changed each decade from the 1920s to today. The history “presentation” keeps getting interrupted by a second chair that roasts all things Broadway, and provides biting social commentary on the world today. Mayhem ensues.