Joel Drake Johnson

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Joel Drake Johnson


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Influences
Anton Chekhov


Chekov is my favorite playwright. I would give just about anything to have written a play that matches Uncle Vanya, Ivanov or The Three Sisters in truth, artfulness, character. His plays reach the heights of great tragedy and comedy without a hint of artificiality, and then he spins it all about and finds the great comedy in what is tragic and the tragedy in what makes us laugh.

I am interested in creating stories with characters who despite their flaws, their bad decisions, their selfish inhibitions, their awkward/comic interactions and tragic set backs, push themselves on to an enlightened understanding of their place in the world.


Joel Drake Johnson is one of the newest members of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Playwrights Ensemble. The
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Rasheeda Speaking

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Four Places: A Play

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The Fall to Earth

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THE END OF THE TOUR

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AS THE BEAVER

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