Catherine Johnson (playwright), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Catherine Johnson (playwright)

British playwright

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1957

Place of Birth: Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, writer, author

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Catherine Johnson (playwright)

  • Catherine Johnson (born 14 October 1957) is a British playwright, producing works for stage and television.
  • She is best known for her book for the ABBA-inspired musical Mamma Mia! and screenplay for the film of the same name.
  • The film became the highest-grossing British picture of all time in the UK, and the biggest selling UK DVD of all time in January 2009.
  • She also co-wrote the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Johnson grew up in Wickwar near Wotton-under-Edge and attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School in Wotton.
  • She was expelled from school at 16, married at 18 and divorced by the age of 24.
  • She moved to Bristol and finding herself unemployed and with one child to support and another on the way she spotted a notice in the local paper for the Bristol Old Vic/HTV West playwriting competition.
  • She wrote Rag Doll, using the pseudonym Maxwell Smart, a play about incest and child abuse, which won the competition and was staged by the Bristol Old Vic.
  • Further plays for the Bush Theatre in London, Bristol Old Vic and Show of Strength followed along with work on television series including Casualty, Love Hurts and Byker Grove.
  • Johnson lives in Bristol and also owns a house in Pimlico, London.In 2007 Johnson instituted The Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play written by the five Pearson Playwrights' Scheme bursary winners from the previous year.
  • Catherine won a bursary from the scheme in 1991.
  • Catherine is a patron of the Wotton Electric Picture House in Wotton-under-Edge, Bristol's Myrtle Theatre Company and Arts and Community in Thornbury.

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