Chloe Johnston has always made performances out of weird things. A political cookbook found in a dusty basement. Fragmentary notebooks kept by Walt Whitman while he nursed soldiers during the Civil War. An academic text about the images on the margins of medieval manuscripts. She is drawn to the weird detail, the cryptic message, the un-adaptable. 

For nearly two-decades Johnston has worked as a performer, writer, director, and dramaturg, on stages throughout Chicago. For many years, she performed with the Neo-Futurists in their late- night show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Every week, she wrote and performed two-minute plays that responded to the world events, bared her soul, and expanded the definition of performance, while still holding the attention of a rowdy late-night audience. She loves the world of collaboratively generated performance so much that she co-wrote a book about it.