Bill Johns

Adjunct Instructor

Acting for Non-Majors

BJohns@Cornish.edu

Bill Johns has been teaching acting, mime, playwriting, storytelling and circus skills since 1980. As a certified K-12 teacher, he has worked in a number of public schools and currently teaches drama at the Overlake School in Redmond. Before his work at Cornish, Bill was on the drama/dance faculty at the University of Georgia. As an artist-in-residence, he has taught over 100 residencies throughout the Southeast and Northwest, teaching theater in diverse situations including prisons, shelters, the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program and numerous professional actor training programs. As an arts advocate, Bill was a member of the Southern Arts federation, the Kennedy Center’s “Arts 2000” national arts education goals committee, and has written curricula and resource guides for the State of Georgia. Johns also works regularly as a stage and commercial actor, and has worked locally at A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre and numerous fringe theaters, as well as in films, TV, commercials, industrials and voice-overs.