Jon Michael Johnson

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About Jon Michael Johnson

FILM Writer/Director: PURE LOVE 500. With Byron Yee and Josh Kelling, Producing with Cooper Square. Writer/Director: PIONEER GIRLS - AN ORAL HISTORY, Documentary, 2015. MICHAEL MCQUARY - ARTIST AND MODEL, Documentary, 2015. Team Cooper Square: ROAD TRIP, 48 Hour Film Project - Kansas City, 2014. FREAK SHOW, 48 Hour Horror Film Project - Kansas City, 2014. Producer: Roberta Munroe's HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Winner, Best Short, Melbourne LGBT Film Festival. Writer: WHALES AND DOLPHINS: TRIBES OF THE OCEAN with Elisabeth Mantello, narrated by Daryl Hannah, presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau and produced by 3DE, France. Writer: Features -GRACE, a thriller optioned by Snack Pack Pictures. LOVE OUT LOUD, a Nicholl Fellowships quarter finalist. Shorts - THE WAACHTA (science fiction) and CHERRIES JUBILEE (a drag queen run amok). THEATER Board of Directors, SoHo Playhouse, Inc. New York. Director: Kennedy's Children, Soho Playhouse, NYC. Double Stoli and Pink Bunny Slippers for Dramatic Question Theatre, October '10. Staged Reading: Kyle Hatley's Head, June '11. Cooper Square Theater: Co-wrote and directed the national tour of the musical, Moriah and the Off Broadway production of En Attendant Oiseau - a holiday musical. English Theatre Frankfurt: Directed and designed numerous productions that played the Frankfurt theater and toured annually to Italy, Germany and The Netherlands. ACTOR Lead in For the Part, a film by Alex Olch, Marc Meyer’s Love and Sex and the Bigel-Mailer feature Casanova Falling. Several features for the German channel ZDF including Margarethe von Trotta’s Anniversaries. Danger Island, directed by John Bruce. Numerous theater roles in Germany and New York. NIGHT LIFE Co-owner, Wonder Bar and Starlight, East Village, New York. Produced live music events, comedy, and showcased New York's best and brightest DJ's.