R. Johns

R. (Rosemary) Johns works as a writer, actor and director. She has a First Class Honours degree in Drama from Manchester University UK, an MFA in Theatre from UCR, California and an MA from La Trobe Australia. Her plays include At the Centre of Light, Carrying Shoes into the Unknown (La Mama 2005 & 2006) selected for VCE Theatre Studies 2006 and VCE Monologue Studies in 2008. The monologue was published in 'Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women Pt 2' (Oberon Press UK 2007). Other plays include The Elephant’s Tusk (La Mama); Luck of the Draw (MRPG/ Playbox, published Currency Press); Can’t Help Myself (Royal Women’s Hospital/45 Downstairs); The Opportunity Shop (La Mama, supported by the City of Yarra Arts Fund). Co-writing credits include The Girl Who Wanted To Be God, invited for a staged performance at The 5th International Women’s Playwrights Conference Athens 2000 (subsequently produced at La Mama/Theatreworks and Playbox: Theatre In the Raw); Micky (supported by the Australia Council Literature Board);Quilting The Armour, a play commissioned to give voice to the women of the Kelly clan.

She has also published short stories, including Salman you send me, The Married Man and The Wings Of a Butterfly was a prize winning entry in a Community Aid Abroad short story competition and published by Hi-Mark Press (1999).