Michael angel Johnson
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Education, Awards, Biography

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Education

M.F.A., Playwriting, The Yale School of Drama

B. A., English/Creative Writing, Goddard College

Certificate Principles of Political Economy, The Henry George School of Economics


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Inaugural Honoree
The Billie Allen Award
'Trailblazing Renaissance Woman of Theatre'
The League of Professional Theatre Women
Read more in Broadway World


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Awards

Resident Artist Program - Mabou Mines
Participant -- Shadows, Theatre in The Works Playwriting Conference
Special Participant -- The Apartment, The Eugene O'Neill Conference
Second Place -- The Apartment, Theodore Ward Contest
Inaugural Honoree -- The Billie Allen Award, League of Professional Theatre Women, 2025
Winner -- Shadows, LA Indies Fest
Winner -- Shadows,  New York Screenwriting Awards, 2023
Winner -- Magnificence & Stone, Best Short Script, Amsterdam Movie Fest 2024
Winner -- Magnificence & Stone, Berlin International Art Film Festival, Best Short Screenplay, 2023
Gold Winner -- Magnificence & Stone, International Independent Film Award 2021
Winner -- Wildfire's Determination, Best Medium Length Script, Best Short Film Awards
Winning Play --  Featured Interview -- Shadows, WILDsound Film Screenplay Festival
Official Selection -- Water Through Rock, Atlanta Cinema Awards 2025
Official Selection -- The Letters, Oxford Script Awards Summer Season 2025
Official Selection -- Water Touching The Rock, Hollywood International Indie Screenplay Awards 2024
Official Selection -- Magnificence & Stone, Chicago Indie Film Awards
Official Selection -- The Letters, Scriptmatix Genre Screenplay Contest, 2023
Official Selection -- The Letters, New York Film & Female Actress Award
Official Selection -- Magnificence & Stone, New York Film * Female Actress Award

Official Selection -- Water Touching The Rock, Oxford Script Awards
Official Selection -- The Letters, LA Femme International Film Festival, LA
Official Selection -- Wildfire's Determination, Best Script Award, Summer 2023
Official Selection -- Water Touching the Rock, London Independent Story Project (LISP): Feature Interview
Official Selection -- Magnificence & Stone, Prague Screenplay Awards
Official Selection -- Magnificence & Stone, Author Script Awards
Official Selection -- Shadows, Television Feedback Screenplay & Web Series Festival
Official Selection -- Water Touching The Rock, London Independent Story Project
Official Selection -- The Letters, The Beverly Hills Film Festival
Official Selection -- Water Through Rock, Rome Independent Prisma Awards
Finalist -- The Letters, The Women's Independent Film & Television Festival
Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, The Women's Independent Film & Television Festival

Finalist -- Shadows, Best Screenplay, London Independent Story Prize (LISP) 2023
Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, California Women's Film Festival
Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Her Vision International Film Festival
Finalist -- Shadows, Athena Film Festival
Finalist -- The Letters, New York City International Screenplay Awards
Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Diverse Writers Outreach, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Finalist -- The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Finalist, The French Story, The Eugene O’Neill Center
Finalist -- FADE IN competition
Finalist -- Playlabs Competition/The Playwrights’ Center Minneapolis
Finalist --Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville
Finalist -- Shadows, Theodore Ward Playwriting Contest
Semi-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Scriptmatix Fellowship
Semi-Finalist -- Shadows, Scriptmatix Fellowship
Semi-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Lady Filmmakers Festival, LA
Semi-Finalist -- Magnificience & Stone, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
Semi-Finalist -- Shadows, Sunvale Table Read Screenplay Contest 2023
Semi-Finalist -- Water Touching The Rock, Park City Table Read Competition
Semi-Finalist -- Shadows, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
Semi-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Manhattan Short Film Festival
Semi-Finalist -- The Letters, The Golden Brad Awards
Semi-Finalist -- The Letters, Writemovies.com
Semi-Finalist -- The Chesterfield Film Company/Writer’s Film Project
Quarter-Finalist -- Water Through Rock, Reno-Tahoe Fellowship 2025
Quarter-Finalist -- The Letters, Reno-Tahoe Fellowship 2025
Quarter-Finalist -- Water Touching the Rock, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Awards 2025
Quarter-Finalist -- Shadows, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Quarter-Finalist -- The Letters, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Diversity vi Initiative
Quarter-Finalist -- Shadows, Sunvale Screenplay Contest
Quarter-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Filmmatic Short Screenplays Award
Quarter-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Quarter-Finalist -- Water Touching The Rock, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Quarter-Finalist -- Magnifcence & Stone, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
Honorable Mention -- Water Through Rock, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Awards 2025
Honorable Mention -- Water Through Rock, New York Screenwriting Awards 2024
Honorable Mention -- The Letters, New York Screenwriting Awards 2023
Honorable Mention -- Water Through Rock, Women's Independent Film Festival, L.A.
Honorable Mention -- Shadows, Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF)
Honorable Mention -- Magnificence & Stone, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Honorable Mention -- The Tower, Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
Nominee -- Water Touching The Rock, Boston Indie Film Festival 2025
Nominee -- Magnifcence & Stone, New York Arthouse Film Festival
Nominee -- Magnificence & Stone, Cannes Independent Shorts
Nominee -- Water Touching The Rock, Berlin Women Cinema Festival
Juror -- Maryland State Arts Council Evaluation Committee, Young Playwrights Festival
Fellow -- MacDowell Colony
Guest -- Yaddo
Guest -- Blue Mountain Center
Guest -- Wishing Well


Commissions
Allison Janney, Treatment/Screenplay “180 DEGREES” 

Grant
“Seed Grant” Fashion Institute of Technology

Other
Panel, “I am a woman, I am an artist,” League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) and the Drama Bookshop, New York City, 2024


Biography-in-Brief

Born: In Boston
Lives: In New York City
Member: New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT)
Member: League of Professional Theatre Women, Board Member
Founding Member: International Theatre of Italy
Member: Honor Roll! Playwrights
Commentary: My Playwriting Research and Projects 2012, 30Blog, LPTW  
Profile: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS Of DIVERSITY, book by Suzanne Bennett and Jane T. Peterson 
Profile: Honor Roll Playwrights
National New Play Exchange: Find my Bio and Script Copies

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