Brooke Johnson

Brooke Johnson has performed in theatres from the Bay of Fundy to the Foothills of the Rockies. Brooke has four Dora Mavor Moore Best Actress nominations for her work in Toronto’s theatres, most recently for playing the title role in Theatre Rusticle’s Wish, directed by Allyson McMackon; for her portrayal of Gwendolyn MacEwan in Claudia Dey’s The Gwendolyn Poems; one for the role of Maria Streuber in Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s The Time and Place; another for Jhana-Gladys Kelly in Tarragon’s original 1987 production of Toronto, Mississippi by Joan MacLeod. Johnson lives in Toronto, often on the trawler Mary Mary, which she and her partner Adrian Truss sailed two winters ago from Florida.