Lynn Johnson (she/her) is a theater maker, entrepreneur, and cultural strategist who has spent the last 30+ years amplifying the voices of folx who have been historically silenced. Along with her wife, Allison Kenny (Artistic Director), Lynn is the co-founder and Executive Director of High Desert Playback, a company that makes theater for social change in New Mexico and beyond. Their multiracial, queer + trans-centered ensemble uses playback theatre and devised performance to mobilize and amplify social issues toward collective liberation. As a life-long artist, Lynn’s mission has always been to create spaces for deep and radical belonging for both audiences and performers. Right after her graduation from Northwestern University, she developed a process of making plays with both actors and non-actors that blend performers’ real life experiences with outside documentary sources. Johnson has worked as a director, actor, and teaching artist with communities of all ages in Chicago, Boston, North Carolina, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Before moving to Albuquerque in 2020, Johnson and Kenny ran a well-loved program in Oakland called Go Girls!, where girls and gender non-conforming kids practice social-emotional skills through the creation of original plays.