Secretary        

Candie Johnson grew up on a ranch in the sandhllls of Nebraska. She attended a small country school and high school in Rushville, Nebraksa. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree and her Masters Degree from Chadron State College. She has taught high school English for twenty-seven years. She also teachers for Western Nebraska Community College and Chadron State College. Candie married Doug Johnson her senior year in college. They have one daughter now attending medical school in Omaha, a son majoring in psychiatry, and daughter who is in the eighth grade.

Wife, mother and teacher, Candie is president of The Sheridan County Players. Drama is her passion and she has been involved in it all her life. She has acted or directed in over eighty productions. Two of her favorite parts in college were the leads in “Antigone” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor”. Some of the roles she has enjoyed for the Players are: Janie in “The Wall”, MyLynn in “Steel Magnolias”, Laura in “Laura”, Katherine in “Taming of the Shrew”, Julie/Federick in “Lovers and Executioners”, Florence in “The Odd Couple”, Charlotte in “Moon Over Buffalo” along with leads in “Don’t Dress for Dinner”, “Zartan” and “The Wooden Pear”, Candie was named the State’s Best Supporting Actress in Community Theaters for “The Wall.”