Erika Johnson

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About Erika Johnson

Erika is an actor, dancer, singer, teacher and writer based in Miami, FL.An ex-competitive gymnast, she studied for 12 years at Martha Mahr School of Ballet in Coral Gables, and supplemented her ballet training with summer intensives at the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and the Juilliard School in NYC. Despite a lifelong love for classical ballet, and onstage appearances as Clara in the Nutcracker and as the Native Child in Still Life at the Penguin Café with the Royal Ballet, she chose to study Musical Theater at New World School of the Arts High School in Miami and then pursued a BFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. It was at SMU where she double majored with a BA in English and joined Sigma Tau Delta before graduation. More recently, she traveled to Russia to deepen her understanding of Stanislavsky technique and studied with the company he founded, Moscow Art Theatre.She has appeared onstage as Ulla (The Producers), Cassie (A Chorus Line), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Sir Andrew (Twelfth Night). She has performed in innumerable 'theater for young audience' shows and is widely known around Nicklaus Children's Hospital as Dr. Mary Posa. Her gymnastics background allowed her to venture into the circus arts, including hand balancing, contortion, a hula hoop act, fire dancing and aerial hoop and aerial hammock. During the pandemic she became a Registered Yoga Teacher and Registered Children's Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance and focused on Trauma Informed Yoga for Youth.She is currently finishing up her centennial novel celebrating the Great Gatsby from Daisy Fay Buchanan's POV and has over 200 unpublished sonnets in response to Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella sonnets.