Every Twenty-One Days

Stephanie Johnson was always a part of theater- behind the scenes. She was comfortable supporting other people's production with her talents as a lighting director. But the arrival of cancer on the stage of her life moved her in a whole new direction. As she began to write down what she was experiencing, she realized these moments were a play in real time, and she was the author. As she faced diagnosis, uncertainty, treatment and inevitable questions and changes all of that brought about, she embraced her front stage persona, and after treatment was done, offering the play, Twenty One Days: Cancer, Yoga and Me to appreciative audiences throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Embracing this new aspect of her life, she is now at work on a second play. A graphic example of what we can make of the difficulties of life, she will talk about her experience and how it led in unexpected directions!