Back كاترين جونسون Arabic كاثرين جونسون (مؤلفه) ARZ Catherine Johnson Czech Catherine Johnson Welsh Catherine Johnson German کاترین جانسون (نمایشنامهنویس) Persian Catherine Johnson Portuguese Catherine Johnson Swedish
Catherine Johnson | |
|---|---|
&sq=US Securities and Exchange Commission&lang=en&file=File:Catherine_Johnson.jpg) | |
| Born | 14 October 1957 Suffolk, England, UK |
| Occupation | playwright, screenwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable works | Mamma Mia! |
| Notable awards | Bristol Old Vic/HTV Playwriting award Thames Television Best Play award UK Film Council script award |
Catherine Johnson (born 14 October 1957)[1] 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 musical's film adaptation. The film became the highest-grossing British picture of all time in the UK,[2] and the biggest selling UK DVD of all time in January 2009.[3] She also co-wrote the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Johnson grew up in Wickwar near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, and attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School in Wotton.[4] She was expelled from school at 16,[5] 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.[6] 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.
In 2007 Johnson instituted The Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play[7] 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[4] in Wotton-under-Edge, Bristol's Myrtle Theatre Company[8] and Arts and Community in Thornbury.[9]
&sq=US Securities and Exchange Commission&lang=en&file=File:ABBA_2008_Av_Daniel_%C3%85hs.jpg)
- ^ "Catherine Johnson". IMDb. Retrieved 2 January 2008.
- ^ Irvine, Chris (30 October 2008). "Mamma Mia becomes highest grossing British film". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 3 November 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
- ^ Staff writer (1 January 2009). "Mamma Mia tops all-time DVD charts". Daily Mirror. MGN. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ^ a b "Mamma Mia! writer Catherine Johnson returns to her roots in Wotton-under-Edge at Wotton Electric Picture House event". Gazette. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ Billen, Andrew (21 February 2009). "Catherine Johnson on Mamma Mia! and new play Suspension". London: Times Online. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
- ^ "Catherine Johnson". The Herald. Press Reader. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ "The Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play 2007" (MS Word). Finborough Theatre. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
- ^ Myrtle Theatre Company – Who We Are Archived 22 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Residents to take centre stage". Thornbury Gazette. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search