Javon Johnson is a native of Anderson, South Carolina. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Screen Actor's Guild, and Kuntu Repertory Theatre and Kuntu Writer's Workshop Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelors of Arts from South Carolina State University and is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. Some of his acting credits include the Provost in Measure for Measure for Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Guy in Blues for and Alabama Sky for Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Cory in Fences for Hilton Head Playhouse, Wendal in Before It Hits Home, Pericles in Pericles, Macbeth in Macbeth, and Joe in Pill Hill. Some of his film credits include Louis Price in The Temptations for NBC, Gangster in Dogma for Tristar Pictures, and Sportin' Life in Porgy: A Gullah Version for SC Educational Television.
As a writer, Johnson has been the recipient of several awards and honors including 1999 finalist for the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage of Washington, DC; 1998 Kennedy Center Fellowship to attend the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference; 1999 Pittsburgh Playwright Award, 1998 Yukon/Pacific New Play Award, and 1998 Lorraine Hansberry Award for Papa's Blues; second place recipient of 1999 Lorraine Hansberry Award for A Noose for Bettyann; and 1998 Best-One Act Play for American College Theatre Festival Region II competition for The Pawn. He has had plays read at Lanford Wilson's Playwright's Retreat, stage reading by CAP21 and Lab Theatre Company in New York, and productions at the Grahamstown Festival in South Africa, Kuntu Repertoy Theatre, and Pittsburgh's New Voices. Johnson has also served as a Panelist for the PlayLab competition at the 1999 Edward Albee Seventh Annual Theatre Conference of Valdez, Alaska.
