John Johnson begins writing screenplays in college while studying playwriting, acting, and theater. His Stage Play, “The Drip” sold out three nights at the Promenade Playhouse Theatre, Santa Monica, Ca. in January 2016. He has a trailer to his credit, “Up the Ladder” 2017 on IMDB.
John graduated 2018, in Cinema Production at Los Angeles City College Cinema department, where he has studied Screenwriting with Charles Domokos, Television and Film Dramatic Writing I & II with Michelle Gendelman. He has studied Playwriting, Stage Production, and Theatre with Rachael Goldberg at Los Angeles Southwest College, and Creative Writing at Los Angeles Trade Tech College with Michael A. Gonzalez, Business Aspect of Motion Picture, and he has studied Producing with Daniel Nyiri at Los Angeles City College, and Motion Picture Production with Scott Mazak.
He’s a former member of The Greater Los Angeles Writer’s Society, Film Independent, and has spent countless hours in Screenwriter’s Network events, workshops, and screenwriter’s critique groups. For Television, he has since finished writing a 30 minutes episodic comedy pilot, “Mani Love” with four completed episodes. In the realm of features, he has written two features screenplays, “The Stevens Family," and "Draywood Prophecy,” both are in the rewriting phase. Two short features, “Diamond in the Rough," and "My Brother’s Keeper, & The Drip."
He recently finish writing a faith-based screenplay entitled, “God’s Replacement” which he’s excited about pitching with Stage 32 Saturday.
My Brother's Keeper Crime When a divorced African American female police officer promoted to a detective is assigned to an all-white police precinct, goes out on a limb to helps free a black man who confessed to the crime, she risk losing her job and her only child to her ex-husband.