Terry Johnson’s work has been performed all over Great Britain and worldwide. He is the recipient of nine major British Theatre awards including: the Olivier Award Best Comedy 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics’ Circle Best New Play 1995, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Writers’ Guild Best Play 1995, Writers’ Guild Best play 1996, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991.
In recent years he has had 10 productions: Rainman, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John’s Glasses and The Memory of Water running in London’s West End. He has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine, which was nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production, and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffries.
He has written and directed television drama that has been broadcast internationally, most recently The Man Who Lost His Head for ITV and Not Only But Always for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and a Bafta for Rhys Ifans. He wrote and directed ‘Cor Blimey! for ITV.
He is Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre where he previously directed Joe Penhall’s play Dumb Show and opened his last play Piano/Forte. He is exceedingly proud that his play Hysteria is currently featured on a Royal Court 50th anniversary mug.