Mila Johansen

Mila Johansen is a professional speaker, writer, teacher and writing coach. She is the author of twenty-two plays and musicals that circle the globe along with two teaching manuals, 101 Theatre Games and 50 Scenes to Go. Jessie Haver Butler helped raise Mila, which made Mila the woman she is today - a writer, historian, activist, and speaker. When Jessie was in her early 90s, Mila followed her around as she shared the podium, several times, with Gloria Steinem, Marlo Thomas, and Jane Fonda. All...See more

Mila Johansen is a professional speaker, writer, teacher and writing coach. She is the author of twenty-two plays and musicals that circle the globe along with two teaching manuals, 101 Theatre Games and 50 Scenes to Go. Jessie Haver Butler helped raise Mila, which made Mila the woman she is today - a writer, historian, activist, and speaker. When Jessie was in her early 90s, Mila followed her around as she shared the podium, several times, with Gloria Steinem, Marlo Thomas, and Jane Fonda. All of Jessie's archives were passed to Mila in the late 1980s, but remained in two file cabinets while Mila was busy teaching, raising her daughter, and writing plays and books. Finally, in early 2018, Mila began the process of organizing Jessie's extensive archives, and began the book that Jessie had always encouraged her to write--the story of Jessie's life. Mila Johansen has written nine screenplays, several children's picture books, and has one YA historical novel, The Four Thieves, finished and ready to publish. She also has three provocative upmarket fiction novels almost completed. Mila lives on her organic citrus ranch in Northern California with her husband, four dogs, and a cat. See less