Mark Johnson was born in Chicago in 1949 but has spent most of his life in Switzerland.  He studied philosophy at the University of Arizona and has an M.F.A. from Bard College, New York.  He is the head of the Arts Department at Institut Montana, an international school in central Switzerland and is the co-founder and artistic director of “Strings Attached”, a company based in Zurich that performs original shows in English and German with mainly Swiss themes and original music.  “Strings Attached” has performed often at the Garage International at both the Edinburgh Fringe and the Avignon Off. “Confessions of a Cultural Spy” is the first one-man show produced by the company.