John E. Johnson

John's first break came while he was having lunch with a friend in Wilmington, NC. John overheard an assistant producer discussing the need for more extras on a film being done there, Simple Justice, starring Andre Braugher, Samuel L. Jackson and James Avery. Interrupting their conversation John talked his way into a featured extra role playing a court reporter, photographer and spectator. He was also a casting assistant for the independent movie This Train. John has gone on to write numerous screenplays (To No Avail, The True Life Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Fish, The Last Time I Saw Eve, Christmas on Jane Street) and radio dramas, and eventually formed the American Screenwriters Association(ASA). Leading the charge for emerging screenwriters, John built the ASA into a 1,300 plus member organization with members in thirty-two countries on four continents in 939 cities. ASA now runs the longest running and premier screenwriting conference in the world, the ASA International Screenwriter