The Nativity Pageant

Neil K. Johnson taught school for 44 years--first drama, then English--and heloves kids. He was able to teach over 7,000, and as a result, many of them won awards for their writing and drama. He was chosen as the 2010 UtahEnglish Teacher of the Year, and he was president of a state English and two state drama and speech teacher associations. Neil received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and his master's degree from theUniversity of Wisconsin at Superior. He did doctoral work at the University ofUtah and the University of Northern Colorado. He wrote The Drama Source Book and compiled three books of plays. Neil and his current wife Sharee both lost their first spouses to cancer. They married and blended their family of 15 kids, and they have 50 grandkids (and counting). Neil is very active in his church, and he loves to see the enactment of the nativity pageant at Christmastime.He knows many of the struggles to make the pageant meaningful, and he has tried to address them in this dramatization.