Recent Appearances
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Last updated: January 30, 2024
- Deadline.com recently announced Eric Branco is directing the full-length version of "Silent Partner," a film co-written by Johnson, Roderick Lawrence, and Branco.
- Making his debut this June in Is God Is by Aleshea Harris at Constellation Theatre Co. Directed by KenYatta Rogers.
- Short film "Speak Up Brotha!" won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Dances with Films: L.A. festival.
- Made his Everyman Theatre debut in Fall 2023, in the Joanie Schultz adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, as "Nils Krogstad." Directed by Joanie Schultz.
- Appeared as "Brucie" in Lynn Nottage's Sweat at Santa Fe Playhouse, May 11 - June 10, 2023. Directed by Robyn Rikoon.
- "Speak Up Brotha!", the 2nd film from Black Man Films LLC premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival, March 29, 2023. Johnson's 2nd screenwriting credit; co-written with spoken word artist Obbie West and features actor T. C. Carson (Living Single). It has since won Grand Jury Prize at Dancing WIth Films: L.A. and is set to screen in several festivals in 2023.
- THE JOY THAT CARRIES YOU (Olney Theatre Center, 2022) received several Helen Hayes Award nominations, including "Outstanding Ensemble in a Play - Hayes."
- Workshopped CONUNDRUM, his first solo show, commissioned by 1st Stage. Director, Psalmayene 24. Sound Designer, Nick tha 1da.
- NOTHING FROM SOMETHING is now available to buy/rent on Amazon Streaming.
- Has been teaching "Intro to Acting" for Theatre Lab in DC since November 2020.
- Narrates audiobooks regularly for Potomac Talking Books as of February 2020.
- Records character voices for Graphic Audio.
- HENCHMAN'S WAR, NOCTURNAL AGONY and TOO SAVED are all available on Prime Video.
- Please check out his profile on New Play eXchange (NPX) as James J. Johnson.
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