Megan Johns

Meg Johns is a native Virginian who moved to Chicago in 2003 to pursue an artistic life of performance, writing, and comedy. She has trained in improvisation at iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theatre, performing in a variety of sketch, improv, and scripted original shows. Some of her favorites include playing with her all-female comedy group Chewties!, and creating the show Love is Dead: A Necromantic Musical Comedy, which ran in Chicago and went on to showcase at The Fringe Festival in NYC in 2008.

Meg began teaching improv at The Annoyance in early 2008. She directed her first full-length original show, Chasing Dumb at The Annoyance, which she and the cast collaboratively wrote. It was chosen as part of Austin’s Comedy Festival in August of 2009. Meg is a proud company member of The New Colony, having performed in 2 shows in the first season – the party ensemble FRAT, and the musical Tupperware, and directed TNC’s 11:11, which ran at the Victory Gardens Biograph in early 2010. Next up, Meg will be performing in Collaboration’s Sketchbook festival with TNC, directing a Triple Feature at The Annoyance, and writing her one woman performance experience. Meg hopes to do more of everything in the future—EVERYTHING!


Favorite things:
Drawing Owls; Biking; Yoga; Paint markers; a huge salad from an overpriced grocery; birdies; colors and glitter and ponies; sunset; travelling; Virginia; her dog Wendell; etsy.com; Saucony shoes; burlesque dancing; dancing with reckless abandon; her Hank; anything with ginger; the sound of the banjo; the smell of sunscreen; Bollywood; and making lists.

 

 

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