Blossom Johnson

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan. Her plays include Red Running Into Water, monster SLAYer, Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play, Our Legendary Mother, K’é and Dark Earth. Her work has been developed and presented by Bag&Baggage and Native Theater Project, Alternative Theater Ensemble, La Lengua, Mixed Blood Theater, Durango PlayFest, Pillsbury House Theatre (CAP) and New Native Theater. Additionally, she has been supported by Willowtail Springs in Mancos, CO, Alternative Theater Ensemble's AlterLab, First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ Alternative Theater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission, The Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship, Netflix Animation Foundations Program, UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center, and the Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals. Her play, Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play, made the Kilroys Web, and had a World Premiere with Bag&Baggage and Native Theater Project in the Portland Area. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with the Guthrie Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, New Native Theatre and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). She is thrilled to announce she is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She is currently the Community Engagement Associate at the Guthrie Theater. Blossom is an alumni of the Nautilus Music-Theater’s Composer-Librettist Studio, she holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).