Clifton Johnson

Clifton Johnson

Clifton Johnson is a recovering social worker and playwright who lives in Chicago. His original works and adaptations were most recently produced by the LaSalle Street Players, and he currently teaches improv comedy at a youth center in the Austin neighborhood. Previously, Clifton taught youth theater in the Kingdom of Tonga as a Peace Corps Volunteer; that acting troupe was named “Tala Kei Kapa Na’a To Ki Mala...
Clifton Johnson is a recovering social worker and playwright who lives in Chicago. His original works and adaptations were most recently produced by the LaSalle Street Players, and he currently teaches improv comedy at a youth center in the Austin neighborhood. Previously, Clifton taught youth theater in the Kingdom of Tonga as a Peace Corps Volunteer; that acting troupe was named “Tala Kei Kapa Na’a To Ki Mala”…which roughly translates to a warning about being eaten by devils. When he’s not acting or writing, Clifton works within nonprofit human resources, which provided insights for his most recent original script Fair.

Plays

  • Fair
    At a college career fair, the attendance looks to be low and the day looks to be long. Matt and Kevin are long-time friends and employees at a small web solutions firm. Matt considers career events like this a nice change of pace, and Kevin considers them a complete waste of time. The firm’s only real remaining client is FlyMall catalog, and rumors abound that the firm’s struggling financially. In fact, an...
    At a college career fair, the attendance looks to be low and the day looks to be long. Matt and Kevin are long-time friends and employees at a small web solutions firm. Matt considers career events like this a nice change of pace, and Kevin considers them a complete waste of time. The firm’s only real remaining client is FlyMall catalog, and rumors abound that the firm’s struggling financially. In fact, an emergency staff meeting’s been called for Friday morning. As rumors spread and Friday approaches, a middle-aged attendee named Bob begins campaigning for an interview and an opportunity. His desperate conversations with Matt and Kevin place them at odds…about how best to reject him and about what honestly really means. As Groucho Marx said, "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."