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Catherine Johnson (playwright)
Catherine Johnson (born 14 October 1957)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Catherine Johnson )〕 is a British playwright, producing works for stage and television. She is best known for her script for the musical Mamma Mia! and screenplay for the film of the same name, which became the highest grossing UK film of all time and the biggest selling UK DVD of all time in January 2009.
Johnson grew up in Wickwar near Wotton-under-Edge and attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School in Wotton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gloucestershire cinema's Hollywood connection )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Catherine Johnson interview )〕 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〔(Myrtle Theatre Company – Who We Are )〕 and ''Arts and Community'' in Thornbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Residents to take centre stage )〕
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