Britta Johnson

Britta Johnson (born 7 May 1991) is a Canadian-American composer, lyricist, and playwright. She is best known for her musical, Life After. Early life and education Johnson was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario. Both of her parents were musicians in the pit orchestra for the Stratford Festival. She has two older sisters, Anika, whom she frequently writes musicals with, and Eliza, who is an opera singer. She first started learning to play the piano when she was three years old, and often spent evenings backstage at Stratford musicals with her parents. Growing up, Johnson was inspired to get involved in music and comedy after her father showed her videos of Victor Borge. The musical, Big Box Story, was a comedy loosely inspired by Stratford’s youth opposing corporate big-box stores taking over the small town. It caught the attention of Stratford Festival, where it was presented as a gala presentation on August 31, 2009. In 2016, Johnson first presented Life After at the Toronto Fringe Festival, where it won the Paul O’Sullivan Prize for best musical theatre script, as well as the Patron’s Pick for musical theatre. The musical was further developed and expanded with the Musical Sta