Michael angel Johnson's plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Amherst, New Haven, and other places across the U.S.
The Price of Solitude was a finalist in the National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Apartment earned Michael angel the honor of special participant at the O'Neill Theatre Center, and Water Touching the Rock (screenplay) was an official selection of the London Independent Story Project.
She has worked with The 52nd Street Project and Mabou Mines, is one of the founders of the International Theatre of Italy, and is an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and formerly at New York University. She is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama.
News:
--The Dime, Southern Soul Theatre Ensemble, Galveston TX, Juneteenth 2025
--Water Touching the Rock, Nominee, Boston Indie Film Festival 2025
--Drawing the Chess Game, Arts and Culture Week, Guardia Sanfranmondi, Italy, May 29, 2025
--Murdergram (poem) (MA Johnson, AM Huggins), The Artemis Art Studio, Guardia Sanfranmondi, Italy, 2025
--Water Touching The Rock, Quarter-Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2025
--Panel, League of Professional Theatre Women and Drama Bookshop, NYC: Playwrights and Books
--Water Through Rock -- Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2025
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, The Women's Independent Film & Television Festival
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, Hollywood International Indie Screenplay Awards 2024
--The Letters, Official Selection, New York Film & Female Actress Award
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, New York Film * Female Actress Award
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship
--Longing, poem, Artemis Art Studio, Italy
--Shadows, Quarter-Finalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Award
--Water Through Rock, Honorable Mention, New York Screenwriting Awards
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, Her Vision International Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, Prague Screenplay Awards
--The Art School, Play, Guardia Sanframondi, Italy, June 7 2024
--Water Touching The Rock, Nominee, Berlin Women Cinema Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Selection, Author Script Awards
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, Oxford Script Awards
--The Letters, Quarter-Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Diversity vi Initiative
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, Chicago Indie Film Awards
--Little Louis, Short Play, Cosmic Orchid Theatre, Spring Reading Series, March 2024, NYC
--Shadows, LA Indies Fest, Winner
--Magnificence & Stone, Winner, Best Short Screenplay, Amsterdam Movie Fest
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, Santa Barbara International, Diverse Outreach
--Shadows, New York Screenwriting Awards 2023, Winner
--Magnificence & Stone, Nominee, Cannes Independent Shorts
--The Letters, Boston Indie Film Festival, Selected
--Magnificence & Stone, Nominee, New York Arthouse Film Festival
--Shadows, Sunvale Screenplay Contest, Quarter-Finalist
--The Letters, New York Screenwriting Awards 2023, Honorable Mention
--Magnificence & Stone, Winner, Berlin International Art Film Festival 2023
--The Letters, Selected, Scriptmatix Genre Screenplay Contest, 2023
--Shadows, Finalist Best Screenplay, London Independent Story Prize (LISP) 2023
--Shadows, Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF)
--The Letters, Official Selection, LA Femme International Film Festival, LA
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Lady Filmmakers Festival, LA
--Wildfire's Determination, Official Selection, Best Script Award, Summer 2023
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
--Water Touching The Rock, LISP Official Selection, Feature, Filmmaker Interview
--Wildfire's Determination, Winner, Best Medium Length Script, Best Short Film Awards
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplays Award
--Shadows screenplay, WILDsound Film, Featured Interview
--Little Louis: Women, Theater and the Holocaust Handbook, Remember the Women Institute
--'This image,' in 'Heart Beating Beneath the Earth' Book, by/editor Jann Rosen-Queralt
--Shadows: Winning play presented at Wildsound Screenplay Festival, listen
--Little Louis, Short Play, Remember the Women Institute, April 20, 2023, NYC
--Shadows, Selected, Television Feedback Screenplay & Web Series Festival
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, London Independent Story Project
--Water Touching The Rock, Semi-Finalist, Park City Table Read Competition
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
--Water Touching The Rock, Quarter-Finalist, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
--The Goddess of Hygieia, We Love Women Doctors, Performance, NYC
--Magnificence & Stone, Honorable Mention, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
--Making It Right (about Pauli Murray), StatueFest on Stage, NYC
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, California Women's Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Gold Winner 2021, International Independent Film Award
--Making It Right, (Pauli Murray), Put A Woman on A Pedestal, StatueFest, Virtual
--Just Wanna Go Home, Say Their Names, Honor Roll Playwrights, Virtual
--The Lock, Cosmic Orchid Theater, NYC, Virtual Festival
--The Rejection, Virtual Theater, Stories of Artists of Color, L.A., YouTube
--Shadows, Finalist, Athena Film Festival
--The Dime, Theater Workshop of Owensberg, Indiana, Virtual
--Blood Ties, publication in She Persisted, Applause Books, Short Plays from Honor Roll!
--The Letters, The Beverly Hills Film Festival
--Water Through Rock, Selected, Rome Independent Prisma Awards
--The Letters, Finalist, New York City International Screenplay Awards
--The Goddess of Hygieia, Reading, Bluestockings Books, NYC, Book Launch: Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom
--Passage to India, selected, The Inspiration Room by HBO #BecauseofHer
--Pigment & Stones, 365 Short Plays Festival, Theatre for the New City
--The Goddess of Hygieia, published in Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom
--The Goddess of Hygieia, Reproductive Freedom Festival, a theatrical event in New York, live streamed worldwide
--Blood Ties, In Her Name, A Festival of New Plays, 13th Street Repertory Company, New York City
--Water Through Rock (film script), Honorable Mention, Women's Independent Film Festival, L.A.
The Price of Solitude was a finalist in the National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Apartment earned Michael angel the honor of special participant at the O'Neill Theatre Center, and Water Touching the Rock (screenplay) was an official selection of the London Independent Story Project.
She has worked with The 52nd Street Project and Mabou Mines, is one of the founders of the International Theatre of Italy, and is an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and formerly at New York University. She is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama.
News:
--The Dime, Southern Soul Theatre Ensemble, Galveston TX, Juneteenth 2025
--Water Touching the Rock, Nominee, Boston Indie Film Festival 2025
--Drawing the Chess Game, Arts and Culture Week, Guardia Sanfranmondi, Italy, May 29, 2025
--Murdergram (poem) (MA Johnson, AM Huggins), The Artemis Art Studio, Guardia Sanfranmondi, Italy, 2025
--Water Touching The Rock, Quarter-Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2025
--Panel, League of Professional Theatre Women and Drama Bookshop, NYC: Playwrights and Books
--Water Through Rock -- Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2025
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, The Women's Independent Film & Television Festival
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, Hollywood International Indie Screenplay Awards 2024
--The Letters, Official Selection, New York Film & Female Actress Award
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, New York Film * Female Actress Award
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship
--Longing, poem, Artemis Art Studio, Italy
--Shadows, Quarter-Finalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Award
--Water Through Rock, Honorable Mention, New York Screenwriting Awards
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, Her Vision International Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, Prague Screenplay Awards
--The Art School, Play, Guardia Sanframondi, Italy, June 7 2024
--Water Touching The Rock, Nominee, Berlin Women Cinema Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Selection, Author Script Awards
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, Oxford Script Awards
--The Letters, Quarter-Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Diversity vi Initiative
--Magnificence & Stone, Official Selection, Chicago Indie Film Awards
--Little Louis, Short Play, Cosmic Orchid Theatre, Spring Reading Series, March 2024, NYC
--Shadows, LA Indies Fest, Winner
--Magnificence & Stone, Winner, Best Short Screenplay, Amsterdam Movie Fest
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, Santa Barbara International, Diverse Outreach
--Shadows, New York Screenwriting Awards 2023, Winner
--Magnificence & Stone, Nominee, Cannes Independent Shorts
--The Letters, Boston Indie Film Festival, Selected
--Magnificence & Stone, Nominee, New York Arthouse Film Festival
--Shadows, Sunvale Screenplay Contest, Quarter-Finalist
--The Letters, New York Screenwriting Awards 2023, Honorable Mention
--Magnificence & Stone, Winner, Berlin International Art Film Festival 2023
--The Letters, Selected, Scriptmatix Genre Screenplay Contest, 2023
--Shadows, Finalist Best Screenplay, London Independent Story Prize (LISP) 2023
--Shadows, Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF)
--The Letters, Official Selection, LA Femme International Film Festival, LA
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Lady Filmmakers Festival, LA
--Wildfire's Determination, Official Selection, Best Script Award, Summer 2023
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
--Water Touching The Rock, LISP Official Selection, Feature, Filmmaker Interview
--Wildfire's Determination, Winner, Best Medium Length Script, Best Short Film Awards
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplays Award
--Shadows screenplay, WILDsound Film, Featured Interview
--Little Louis: Women, Theater and the Holocaust Handbook, Remember the Women Institute
--'This image,' in 'Heart Beating Beneath the Earth' Book, by/editor Jann Rosen-Queralt
--Shadows: Winning play presented at Wildsound Screenplay Festival, listen
--Little Louis, Short Play, Remember the Women Institute, April 20, 2023, NYC
--Shadows, Selected, Television Feedback Screenplay & Web Series Festival
--Water Touching The Rock, Official Selection, London Independent Story Project
--Water Touching The Rock, Semi-Finalist, Park City Table Read Competition
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
--Water Touching The Rock, Quarter-Finalist, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
--The Goddess of Hygieia, We Love Women Doctors, Performance, NYC
--Magnificence & Stone, Honorable Mention, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
--Magnificence & Stone, Quarter-Finalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
--Shadows, Semi-Finalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
--Making It Right (about Pauli Murray), StatueFest on Stage, NYC
--Magnificence & Stone, Semi-Finalist, MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Finalist, California Women's Film Festival
--Magnificence & Stone, Gold Winner 2021, International Independent Film Award
--Making It Right, (Pauli Murray), Put A Woman on A Pedestal, StatueFest, Virtual
--Just Wanna Go Home, Say Their Names, Honor Roll Playwrights, Virtual
--The Lock, Cosmic Orchid Theater, NYC, Virtual Festival
--The Rejection, Virtual Theater, Stories of Artists of Color, L.A., YouTube
--Shadows, Finalist, Athena Film Festival
--The Dime, Theater Workshop of Owensberg, Indiana, Virtual
--Blood Ties, publication in She Persisted, Applause Books, Short Plays from Honor Roll!
--The Letters, The Beverly Hills Film Festival
--Water Through Rock, Selected, Rome Independent Prisma Awards
--The Letters, Finalist, New York City International Screenplay Awards
--The Goddess of Hygieia, Reading, Bluestockings Books, NYC, Book Launch: Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom
--Passage to India, selected, The Inspiration Room by HBO #BecauseofHer
--Pigment & Stones, 365 Short Plays Festival, Theatre for the New City
--The Goddess of Hygieia, published in Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom
--The Goddess of Hygieia, Reproductive Freedom Festival, a theatrical event in New York, live streamed worldwide
--Blood Ties, In Her Name, A Festival of New Plays, 13th Street Repertory Company, New York City
--Water Through Rock (film script), Honorable Mention, Women's Independent Film Festival, L.A.
