JOHNNY WIDEMAN 5293 Durham Road 30, Claremont, ON, L1Y 1A3 416-725-6452 [email protected]

EDUCATION University of Waterloo Honours Arts: Drama 2009 University of Sussex Study Abroad Program 2008

HONORS / AWARDS Distinguished Alumni Service Award: This Will Conrad Grebel University College 2015 Lead to Dancing Best No-Budget Feature: GODART (Screenplay) Independent Film Festival 2013 Official Selection: GODART (Screenplay) Polish International Film Festival 2013 Best English Script (Nominated): Gadfly: Sam St-Ambroise Fringe Festival 2012 Steiner Dodges the Draft

PUBLICATIONS Hiding Places (Article) Utne Reader – Fall Issue 2018 Exorcise for Life (Feature article) GEEZ Magazine – Issue #48 2018 To Aid Digestion (Short Story Collection) Arkay Print 2017 This Will Lead to Dancing (Stage Play) Coach House Books 2017 Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the… (Stage Play) Pandora Press (Second ed.) 2015 Selah’s Song (Stage Play & Libretto) Pandora Press 2014 Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the… (Stage Play) Pandora Press (First ed.) 2012

SELECTED PLAYS – PLAYWRIGHT Bottle Opener Staged-reading - The Darcy Symposium/Informal Upright 2018

Fair and Wide MonstrARTS: , ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 & A Fair Tale Summer in the Park: North Bay, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Site-Specific Production – The Barrie Fair: Barrie, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Site-Specific Production – Sunderland Fair: Sunderland, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Site-Specific Production – The Markham Fair: Markham, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Site-Specific Production – The Woodbridge Fair: Woodbridge, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Site-Specific Production – October Fest: Stouffville, ON/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Sid Williams Theatre: Courtenay, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Max Cameron Theatre: Powell River, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Quadra Community Centre: Quadra Island/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Denman Island Community Centre: Denman Island, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Evergreen Cultural Centre: Coquitlam, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre: Revelstoke, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017 Golden Civic Centre: Golden, BC/Motus O Dance Theatre 2017

Yellow Bellies Buhler Hall: Gretna, MB/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Gas Station Theatre: , MB/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Dark Crop Festival: Dorchester, ON/OPIA Collective 2017 Village Playhouse: Bancroft, ON/North Hasting Hospice 2017 Nineteen on the Park: Stouffville, ON/Dept. of Culture - Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville 2017 Theatre of the Arts: Waterloo, ON/Global Mennonite Peace Building Conference 2016

Forgiven/ Skylight Festival: Paris, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Forgotten University of Waterloo: Waterloo, ON/St-Jerome’s College 2017 Crossroads Studios: Oakville, ON/CBI Prison Min. 2016 Cont. Festival Inn: Stratford, ON/Community Justice Initiatives 2015 Acadia University: Wolfville, NS/Theatre of the Beat 2014 St. Thomas University: Fredericton, NB/Theatre of the Beat 2014 Prison Production - Nova Institute - Truro, NB/Theatre of the Beat 2014 Prison Production - Dorchester Minimum: Dorchester, NB/Theatre of the Beat 2014 Courtyard Marriott: Toronto, ON/ National Restorative Justice Symposium 2013 Prison Production - Grand Valley Institute for Women: Kitchener, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2013 Prison Production - Drumheller Institution: Drumheller, AB/Theatre of the Beat 2013 Prison Production – Saskatoon Correctional Centre: Saskatoon, SK/Theatre of the Beat 2013 Prison Production – Winnipeg Remand Centre: Winnipeg, MB/Theatre of the Beat 2013 Eckhardt-Grammate Hall: Winnipeg, MB/Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre 2013 Berkeley Street Theatre: Toronto, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2013 Nineteen on the Park: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2013 The Bank Theatre: Leamington, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2013 The Bronson Centre: , ON/National Victims of Crime Awareness 2013 Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts: Kitchener, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2013

This Will Lead Site-Specific Production – Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Festival: Ohio/Theatre of the Beat 2018 To Dancing Site-Specific Production – St Louis Menno Fellowship: St. Louis, MO/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Site-Specific Production – Community Mennonite Church: Chicago, IL/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Site-Specific Production – Akron Mennonite Church: Akron, PA/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Site-Specific Production – Lorraine Ave. Menno Church: Wichita, KS/Theatre of the Beat 2017 TCU Place: Saskatoon, SK/Mennonite Church Canada Conference 2016 Site-Specific Production – Valleyview Mennonite Church: London, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2016 Site-Specific Production – Preston Mennonite Church: Cambridge, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2016 Site-Specific Production – Floradale Mennonite Church: Tavistock, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2016 Site-Specific Production – Toronto United Menno Church: Toronto, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2015 Site-Specific Production – Bethel Mennonite Church: Winnipeg, MB/Theatre of the Beat 2015 Site-Specific Production – Wildwood Mennonite Church: Saskatoon, SK/Theatre of the Beat 2015 Site-Specific Production – Stirling Ave. Menno Church: Kitchener, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2015

A Bicycle Built The Rudolph Rocker: Winnipeg, MB/Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2015 for Two Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts: Kitchener, ON/Shalom Counselling Services 2014 The Refinery Arts and Spirit Centre: Saskatoon, SK/Theatre of the Beat 2014 Nineteen on the Park: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2014 Randolph Centre for the Arts: Toronto, ON/Toronto Fringe Festival 2014

This Prison Nineteen on the Park Theatre: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2015 Studio Léonard Beaulne: Ottawa, ON/Ottawa Fringe Festival 2015 Wakefield Centre: Wakefield, QC/TaDa Festival 2014 The Bank Theatre: Leamington, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2014 The Academy at King Edward: , AB/Edmonton Fringe Festival 2013 The Playhouse Studio: Winnipeg, MB/Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2013 Robert Gill Theatre: Toronto, ON/ Toronto Fringe Festival 2013 Humanities Theatre: Waterloo, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2011

Gadfly: Sam Nineteen on the Park Theatre: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2015 Steiner Dodges John S. Umble Centre: Goshen, IN/Theatre of the Beat 2013 the Draft Ramseyer Theatre: Bluffton, OH/ Theatre of the Beat 2013 The Bank Theatre: Leamington, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2012 Revue Stage: , BC/Theatre of the Beat 2012 King Edward Public School: Edmonton, AB/Edmonton Fringe Festival 2012 Club Espagnol De Quebec: Montreal, ON/ St-Ambroise Fringe Festival 2012 Cont. Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts: Kitchener, ON/Mennonite Archives of Ontario 2012 Mackenzie Hall: Windsor, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2012 Laudamus Auditorium: Winnipeg, MB/Theatre of the Beat 2012 Sam’s Place: Winnipeg, MB/Theatre of the Beat 2012

Selah’s Song: Nineteen on the Park Theatre: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2014 A Social Justice Folk Musical

SELECTED FILM & RADIO – SCREENWRITER GODART (Feature film) Directed by Paul Plett/Ode Productions 2013 Pearl the Squirrel (Audio) Directed by Shirley Gilham/Willowgrove Inc. 2010

SELECTED PLAYS – DRAMATURGY & SCRIPT COORDINTATION #ChurchToo Currently touring. Premiered at Conrad Centre for Performing Arts, Kitchener, ON 2018-19

Emergency Only Prison Production – Grand Valley Institute for Women: Kitchener/Theatre of the Beat 2018

The Identity Devised Prison Prod. – Grand Valley Institute for Women: Kitchener/Theatre of the Beat 2017 Project

The Auden Test Buddies in Bad Times: Toronto, ON/Just Mingling Queer Theatre Salon 2017 Wakefield Centre: Wakefield, QC/TaDa Festival 2017 Arts Court Theatre: Ottawa, ON/Just Mingling Queer Theatre Salon 2016

A Little Fire Nineteen on the Park: Stouffville, ON/Theatre of the Beat 2016 Arts Court Theatre: Ottawa, ON/Abalone Productions 2016

An Enemy of Tarragon Theatre: Toronto, ON/Tarragon Theatre 2014 the People

Caucasian Theatre of the Arts: Waterloo, ON/UW Drama 2007 Chalk Circle

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Theatre Program Facilitator Grand Valley Institute for Women (Federal Pen.) Kitchener, ON 2018 Touring Social Justice Theatre University of Toronto – Prof. Guillermo Verdecchia: Toronto, ON 2017 Brechtian Acting Technique Skylight Festival, Paris, ON 2017 Peace Innovators Forum: Arts & Peace University of Waterloo – Michelle Jacket: Waterloo, ON 2017 Making Strange for Social Change Henry Street High School – Jill Howard: Whitby, ON 2017 Art as Activism University of Waterloo - Centre for Peace Advancement: Waterloo 2016 Touring Social Justice Theatre University of Toronto – Prof. Guillermo Verdecchia, Toronto, ON 2016 Making Strange for Social Change Goshen College – Dr. Doug Caskey: Goshen, IN 2015

WORKSHOPS Playwriting and Dramaturgy Brian Quirt, Tarragon Theatre 2015 Practical Exercises for Playwriting Steven Gallagher, Wakefield Centre 2014 Dramaturgy & New Play Development Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas 2014 Intro to Playwriting Guillermo Verdecchia 2009

SOUND DESIGN Strata Inc. UnderCurrents, Ottawa 2019 A Little Fire Arts Court Theatre: Ottawa, ON/Abalone Productions 2016 Johnny Wideman is a playwright, dramaturg, actor, facilitator, and the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for his work in Theatre from Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. Wideman received his Honours Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of Waterloo, ON, and the University of Sussex, UK. In June of 2011, he founded the grass-roots social justice theatre company, Theatre of the Beat, of which he is now the Artistic Director. In 2012, Wideman’s screenplay GODART was awarded "Best Low-Budget Feature Film" at the Toronto Independent Film Festival and “Official Selection” at the Polish Independent Film Festival. Wideman’s work has been performed over 260 times throughout the U.S. and across Canada, including: This Prison or: He came Through the Floor, Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft, Forgiven/Forgotten, A Bicycle Built for Two, This Will Lead to Dancing, and Yellow Bellies.