Michelle T. Johnson is a Kansas City-based local and national diversity
consultant and speaker. A former journalist and attorney, Johnson has
three published books on workplace diversity and writes a freelance
column in the Kansas City Star as the "Diversity Diva" since January
2008.
Johnson is also a playwright whose plays have been
produced in the Barn Players of Mission, Kansas' "2011 Six By Ten
Festival," the 2012 Kansas City Fringe Festival and by Potluck
Productions in 2012.
She was selected as a featured playwright in the Unicorn Theater's
Writer Showcase in February 2013, as a participant in the 2013 Project
Playwright 2.0 competition and had her micro-play read at the 2013 World
Theater Day celebration held by Mind The Gap Theater in New York City.
She has had her plays picked and produced for playwriting festivals in
Houston, Texas and Medford, Connecticut. Johnson's play "Wiccans in the
'Hood" was selected for and produced in the "Midwinter Madness Short
Play Festival" in New York City in February 2013 and was the sixth
best-attended show out of over 120 acts in the 2013 Kansas City Fringe
Festival.
Her play "The Negro Whisperer" was in the New Work Series Festival in New York City in October 2013.
Her play “Echoes of Octavia” will be produced by KC Melting Pot Theater in August 2014.
Her plays “Trading Places” and an expanded “Wiccans in the ’Hood” will
be produced in the 2014 season of Brainspunk Theater of Philadelphia,
PA. "Trading Races" has been selected for the 2014 NYC theater festival
Planet Connectivity Festivity.
Johnson is an elected member of
the the International Centre of Women Playwrights and is a member of the
Dramatists Guild of America.
Contact info: 816-225-8153