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PeggyRae
JohnsonPeggyRae Johnson was the Founding Artistic Director of The Monticello
Theatre Association, a regional theatre group in Illinois which started
rehearsals in her garage and after 8 years moved into their own building
where they enjoyed a twenty-eight year run prior to it being destroyed
by a fire. Still a freelance actor and director with more than
200 theatre and television productions, voice-overs, commercials, and
industrials to her credit, PeggyRae is also a member of Surviving Jesse
Productions Company with William Seigh.
She received her Master’s in Theatre at the University of Illinois, summa-cum-laude. PeggyRae
studied acting with David Knight of the BBC and Voice and Diction with Cicely
Berry of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Additional training includes Acting
for the Camera, Michael Chekhov Master Classes, Alexander Technique, Lessac,
Linklater, and Fitzmaurice voice workshops, and a Director’s Colloquium
with Arvin Brown and Andrei Serban.
A past Associate Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival,
Region 1, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion and was similarly honored
by the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild with a Lifetime Member Award for
service and leadership in theatre. PeggyRae currently teaches Voice and
Diction and Oral Interpretation at Franklin Pierce College. At Keene State, she
teaches Theatre History and Acting and also directs. Her favorite production
process at KSC was working with student Steven Gravelle on a political satire
they co-wrote, Empires Fall.
