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Abraham Johnson

Recommended by Abraham Johnson

  • Jar of Fat by Seayoung Yim
    3 Mar. 2022
    “ I saw this play back in the 2020 Writing is Live Festival and 2 years later I'm still thinking about it. Heartbreaking, hilarious, brutal, campy, and fun. Watching Abilene and Clementine wrestle with the world around them until they turn towards each other? Wow. What's even more impressive is how much tension in this play is driven from a place of love-- violent love, absolutely-- but love that paints the world of the play with colors and textures that feel wholly unique. I don't know any other plays like this. I love this script dearly. ”
  • We're Just Redoing The Kitchen by Maddie Dennis-Yates
    31 May. 2021
    “ Omniscient Barbara Walters, disembodied hands, and the hanging cloud of Corporate Sponsorships swirl together in this delightfully theatrical exploration of what it means to deconstruct and reconstruct a kitchen. Or a body. Or a family. Everything (!!!) in this play crackles. The dialogue rides a hilarious but sharp line as newscasters joke about putting Skyler down "like a deer." The tension of Skyler's injury permeates every scene–– testing her physical limits and the family's optimism. Striking images of anonymous hands poke and prod Skyler through kitchen construction, physical therapy and into a new (though delicate) comeback. I love this play! ”
  • An American Animal by Katherine Gwynn
    22 Apr. 2021
    “ Oh my god this play. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, "An American Animal" features exciting theatricality, dynamic characters with refreshing humanity, timely themes of American isolation and fear, and genuinely funny/intimate dialogue against a massive Yellowstone landscape. The YA-summer-romance plotline is told with clarity and heart, refreshingly balanced alongside the just-as-swoonworthy nurturing of the wolfpack that Paz, Chloe, and Willa are tracking. This play is so, so special and the ending feels like a gorgeous, queer expansion into the people that the summer allowed Chloe and Willa to become. Beautiful! Can't wait to see this produced! ”
  • FULLERTON by Daniel K. Isaac
    5 Jun. 2020
    “ AH! The balance of pain and humor in this play is surgical. At once, FULLERTON feels like... a California ghost story about the places we leave? But also a love letter to the way that absence drives us to make beauty for ourselves? And also that sensation of when it’s the end of the Prom night, and everybody’s smiling and sweaty, but on the drive home all of the possibilities of the night start dimming into reality? Wow??? Read it, produce it, please and thank you <3 ”
  • Book Club by Maddie Dennis-Yates
    8 Jul. 2019
    “ Maddie once again uses her killer command of language and tension to create a world of bubbles that need to be popped. "Book Club" nails the potential for civil conversation to hide boiling problems, and this cringe-laugh tension only grows until the final, strange, striking image. Awesome script that should be produced more! ”
  • Man Boobs by C. Julian Jiménez
    5 Apr. 2019
    “ Loved this dark, sexy, heart-breaking play. Marty and Spence are so loveable and flawed that they jump off the page. Made me want to give them both a big hug and made me hope that this play gets produced more! ”
  • Glitter in the Glass by R. Eric Thomas
    1 Apr. 2019
    “ Read this play, then produce this play, then get other theaters to produce this play, then repeat... The dialogue is electric, the characters are so instantly loveable, and the ending!! Gorgeous. I caught myself holding my breath for that entire last scene. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Excited to see this play take over stages everywhere. ”
  • The Forest by Lia Romeo
    1 Apr. 2019
    “ I read this play a week ago and the images still feel totally vivid. Lots of retina-burn in this script. It's beautiful and tragic and messy and fun and awkward and just a lovely play. Finishing the last scene made me call my mom. Really, really love this! ”

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