Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson is a produced playwright and author of A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, a writing workbook that uses popular plays, novels, and movies to explore principles of storytelling. His short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico, and England.

Plays

  • Which Way Home by Bill Johnson
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: humor, afterlife + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: humor, afterlife, Relationships
    After a car accident, a husband and wife end up in an afterlife way station where they must decide whether to return to Earth or stay in the afterlife. The husband is shocked when his wife makes her own decision about where she'll go.
  • The True Cost of Heavenly Birth Insurance by Bill Johnson
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
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    Keyword: karma, heaven + 1 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: karma, heaven, a new life
    A heavenly birth insurance salesman meets with someone interested in purchasing the insurance, which can use one person's karma to give another person a better life (to the detriment of the other person in the transaction). The true cost of this type of insurance is slowly revealed.
  • The Baggage Handler by Bill Johnson
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: afterlife, karma + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama
    Keyword: afterlife, karma, life baggage
    Fred and Muriel are checking in their baggage for their next Earthly life together, when Fred learns they might be able to leave some of their baggage behind. The plan seems fool proof until Muriel learns the real cost from a baggage handler.
  • Satan Offers Lassie a Room of Her Own by Bill Johnson
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: afterlife, karma + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: afterlife, karma, Female Artists
    Satan is a woman artist who oversees the artistic expression of the universe. She meets Lassie because Lassie's good karma from her TV role means she can choose what to be in her first human life. Heaven has offered Lassie a first life of being a movie star. Satan offers Lassie a first life as an unrecognized female artist who between human lives will have a room in hell to perfect her art.