Playwright Michelle Tyrene Johnson

04/07/2025

My new website!

Michelle Tyrene Johnson’s work has been staged nationally in readings and productions, including at the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival in NYC, the Pork Filled Productions Unleashed Festival in Seattle, Washington, the Florida Rep PlayLab Festival in Fort Myers, Florida, the KC Repe...

02/22/2025

https://denvergazette.com/arts-entertainment/check-out-these-new-to-colorado-plays-while-you-can/article_c81bcae4-efe0-11ef-919f-3f6d6d7822a2.html

High risk but the highest reward when you take a chance and go off the beaten playgoing path

02/18/2025

Breathing the brisk Colorado air during tech week as I watch an amazing group of artists bring my script to life beyond what I could have ever imagined. Means more now than it ever has before.

Thanks to for sitting down with members of the CHASING BREADCRUMBS team. Read the article now and get your tickets today for this world premiere comedy that puts truth, integrity and family on the line.

Feb 20 - Mar 9, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder

2 nights are already SOLD OUT

Tickets: https://thedairy.org/local-theater-company/
Article:https://www.localtheaterco.org/s/Chasing-Breadcrumbs-Daily-Camera.pdf

06/30/2024

06/17/2024

I’m excited and honored to announce that I’m the selected Fall 2024 playwright ! Coincidentally, the play I submitted and that was chosen for this development opportunity takes place in DC and will be in DC the week after the election. Yeah, that election. 😳

06/09/2024

https://www.broadwayworld.com/buffalo/article/Buffalo-Theatre-Company-Welcomes-A-New-Member-To-Its-Playwright-Wing-20240606

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company will welcome Michelle Tyrene Johnson to its playwrights wing.

05/05/2024

This is it! CLOSING NIGHT for THE GREEN BOOK WINE CLUB TRAIN TRIP! It's your LAST CHANCE to see this beautiful piece. RSVP now at LoftEnsemble.org then donate whatever you want at the door! Link in bio! 📷: .parker

04/26/2024

Theatre reviews are so rare these days, and you have to take the bad with the good. But there’s more good than bad in this one AND it’s a top 10, recommend play to see by this Los Angeles reviewer. Mine and an August Wilson play. Didn’t see that coming. 😱

“The play hangs on the Twilight Zone mystery revealing the cultural ethos of an American backwater in 1946, and how that ethos contrasts with that of the 21st century. The author’s insightful view is that the differences are in technology, less so in rudimentary human behavior. “

Thanks to Loft Ensemble Theatre Company for doing my baby proud! 🚂

Dominique Howard and Jazmine Nichelle (photo by Daniel J. Parker) Reviewed by Steven Leigh Morris Loft Ensemble Through May 5 RECOMMENDED There’s a rawness in Jazmine Nichelle’s staging of Michelle Tyrene Johnson’s family/ancestry play, The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip. Not raw as in abrasi...

03/14/2024

https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/stage/staging-the-future/

Ever wanted to be in the room where the seeds of theatrical masterpieces are sown? Local Theater Company’s (LTC) 13th installment of Local Lab, hosted at the Dairy Arts Center’s Grace Gamm Theatre from March 15 to 17, gives you a backstage pass to the creative furnace that is playwriting. Pulitz...

02/10/2024