MILO JOHNSON writes, performs, and produces theater. Usually solo, her deeply personal and darkly humorous shows  often feature surrealistic flourishes. After many years in Los Angeles, Milo recently came home to the San Francisco Bay Area.

VENUS DE MILO SWIMS TO VICTORY! is her most recent full-length production. It premiered in June 2007 at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. In this autobiographical show, Milo travels from a destructive relationship through tragicomic celibacy into the realm of middle-aged dating and beyond, with videos of her parents raising issues of emotional legacies and healing

In 1998 Milo produced the experimental group performance show Engendered Species in which she performed her autobiographical solo piece Mutations 1978-1984. A video clip of the performance was screened in LA Woman: Performance and Video Festival at the 1999 Women's Caucus for Art Conference.

She next formed her own company to produce Hollywood - Smash Cut to Nowhere, a mixed media show of performance, film, and art, in which Recycled Starlet—the story of an actress who refuses to give up on stardom, even after she’s died six times— made its premiere as a self-directed work-in-progress.

It earned an LA Times Best Bet and LA Weekly Theater Recommendation. In 2002, she produced a revised version of Recycled Starlet, directed by Chris Wells, which garnered an LA Weekly Pick of the Week.

For the election year of 2004 she collaborated with artist Butcher John Henry on several anti-Bush T-shirt designs. Sold at events and online, the shirts were featured in "Elect This!" an exhibit of political art at SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center) in Venice, California.

After graduating from ACT's Young Conservatory in San Francisco, Milo earned a BA in Television Writing and Directing from San Francisco State University and was awarded a Screenwriting Fellowship to the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She has partnered Take One, a video production company, appeared in films and on TV,  and done stand-up comedy throughout Southern California. More recently she has performed short works and sang in various group shows— All Stars of LA Performance Art, Cabaret Voltaire, Max 10, and Singers' Playground.