Graduate Profile: Brianna Johnson
Brianna Johnson graduated a semester early and still designed the lighting for three shows and six one-act plays.
“In most programs you are lucky if you get a one-act play and a full show to design before you graduate,” the 2008 graduate says. “Alma’s Theatre Program helped me figure out what I wanted to do for a living, and I got tons of experience.”
In 2008 she enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Illinois. She says her experience in Alma College's program and her theatre professors helped prepare her for graduate school.
“It is very much like a family in the sense that you are cared for and really helped when in need,” she says. “There was a death in my family, and if it hadn't been for my theatre professors, I would have flunked the second semester of my freshman year.”
While at Alma, Johnson was involved in the production of the Vagina Monologues, the Jewish cultural organization, the women's aid shelter and Kappa Iota Sorority.
She plans to be a theatre and dance lighting designer when she finishes her graduate degree.
