Blossom Johnson is a Diné playwright and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan. Her plays include Red Running Into Water, monster SLAYer, Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play, Our Legendary Mother, K’é, Dark Earth and ayóó'áníínísh'ní. Her work has been supported by New York Stage and Film, Perelman Performing Arts Center and Playwrights Horizons, Bag&Baggage and Native Performing Arts Network (formerly Native Theater Project), Alternative Theater Ensemble, La Lengua, Mixed Blood Theater, Durango PlayFest, Pillsbury House Theatre (CAP) and New Native Theatre. Additionally, she has been supported by Willowtail Springs in Mancos, CO, Alternative Theater Ensemble's AlterLab, First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship, La Lengua/ Alternative Theater Ensemble’s Decolonization Stories Commission, The Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship, Netflix Animation Foundations Program, UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center, and the Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals. Her play, Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play, made the Kilroys Web, and had a World Premiere with Bag&Baggage and Native Theater Project in the Portland Area. Her debut play, Red Running Into Water, had a World Premiere with New Native Theatre in the Twin Cities. As a dramaturg, Blossom has worked with the Guthrie Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, UCSB Launch Pad, PlayPenn, Urbanite Theatre, and YIPAP (Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program). Blossom was in the Librettist cohort for the 2024 Nautilus Music-Theater’s Composer-Librettist Studio. She is thrilled to be a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and a Democracy Cycle 2025 recipient along with Daniel Leeman Smith. She is honored to co-write an adaptation of Brenda Child’s Bowwow Powwow with Benay McNamara which will have a World Premiere with Stages Theatre in collaboration with Mni Giizhik Theatre Ensemble from September 16 - 27, 2026 in Hopkins, MN. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University.