“His work projects the values which exist beyond the words and his love for mime and dance theatre coexist in harmony with subtle beauty and power."
- Stefan Niedzialkowski

"Powerful and dynamic ...I have seen the work he (Nicholas Johnson) has created develop the boundaries of our art."
- Marcel Marceau

"A unique opportunity to work with the most innovative choreographer in the art of mime today."
- Gregg Goldston

Alithea Creations is a company dedicated to a continuing vision of mime, both as a single-discipline and as a multi-discipline. The Alithea Mime Theatre is the collection of group mime choreography Johnson has created over the last twenty years, future works, solos, and further serves to present the work of American soloists in conjunction with performances.

The Alithea Mime Theatre
In 1990 Johnson developed Alithea Creations, a company dedicated to the production of single discipline and multi-discipline performances in mime theatre. Recognizing the need for a strong identity in American mime theatre, Johnson began to create new works and re-stage former company pieces that would later become the touring repertory for the Alithea Mime Theatre, a performing company that would highlight his group and solo choreography. Angels Rising and Asylum would soon become his signature works. As Artistic Director of The Alithea Mime Theatre, a company based in Wichita, Johnson and Sabrina Vasquez, wife and Associate Artistic Director have toured Alithea to the International Mime Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland, in May 2000, and the First International Mime and Physical Theatre Festival in the Caribbean, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in May 2001.

The documentary film, Beyond the Word, made in collaboration with the Wichita State University Media Resource Center documenting the tour to Poland, directed by Greg Mathias, won a national Telly award in 2001. Lonnie Quattlebaum directed Out of the Box, a documentary film of the Alithea tour to Puerto Rico. Both videos are available for sale as a fundraiser for the company.

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School for Mime Theatre
In 1980, the School for Mime Theatre was conceived by Gregg Goldston and founded by Gregg Goldston, C. Nicholas Johnson, and Deborah Wasserman, with the vision of establishing a summer refuge where both the professional and beginner could pursue new material, develop as a writer, enhance performance techniques and evolve as a person. Throughout its 23 year history, the school has developed into a center where artists can work in a noncompetitive environment, where both faculty and students live and work together as a company of mime, creating and furthering the art and themselves.

Children's Theatre
Alithea continues to explore the world of possibilities in children's theater by writing, directing and producing original work for children and community theaters. Alithea emphasizes a creative process that challenges a young cast both physically and intellectually, introducing concepts that are entertaining, meaningful and geared toward creating strong self-esteem, social awareness and concepts of self-discovery and personal growth. Recent large productions have included the Nickracker, and Alice, a multi-disciplinary production of Alice in Wonderland set in the Arizona desert.

Multi-disciplinary Performances
In 1994, further blending of the arts occurred when Johnson premiered his production Seg way, a multi-disciplinary performance combining film with mime, dance and original music, Tucson, Arizona. After re-staging, the production was introduced to Chicago audiences at the Ruth Page Theater in 1996. Johnson received a 1998 Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship for his multi-disciplinary vision. Fusing mime theatre and film, he also placed 1st and 3rd in the 1998 Kan Film Festival for the experimental Seg way films and won 1st place in the Wichita National Short Film Competition 2002.