Welcome to Equity in Theatre

Marcia Johnson is a Toronto-based theatre artist. She branched out from acting into writing with the help of play festivals: You Look Great Too (Rhubarb!/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) and Perfect on Paper (Toronto Fringe).
Perfect on Paper was later commissioned by CBC Radio. Marcia played the lead role in both productions. She was then commissioned to write an original radio drama, Say Ginger Ale. She then re-wrote it as a stage play which was produced at SummerWorks Performance Festival.
Marcia’s play Binti’s Journey (based on ‘The Heaven Shop’/ Deborah Ellis) was commissioned by Theatre Direct Canada and has had several touring and theatre productions at places such as Young Peoples Theatre, Manitoba Theatre for Young People and Black Theatre Workshop in Montreal. Binti’s Journey has been published in the collection Things That Go Bump, Volume 1: Plays for Young Adults, edited by Kit Brennan for Signature Editions.
Courting Johanna (adapted from Alice Munro’s ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’) was commissioned and produced at Blyth Festival and had a second production at University of Lethbridge. It is available from Scirocco Drama.
Marcia’s opera collaboration with composer Stephen A. Taylor My Mother’s Ring premiered in March 2009 as part of Tapestry New Opera’s Opera to Go program. It was subsequently nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding New Musical/Opera. Their second project, an adaptation of Paradises Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin, had its debut at University of Illinois.

Marcia teaches an introduction to playwriting course to musical theatre students at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario. She is also Vice President of Women Playwrights International.

Still an actor, Marcia recently appeared in Contempt by Brandon Crone at Storefront Theatre.