Christine Toy Johnson

Christine Toy Johnson is an award-winning playwright, actor, filmmaker and advocate for inclusion, based in New York City.

Her plays and libretti have been developed with the Roundabout Theatre Company, Crossroads Theatre, Leviathan Lab, Diverse City Theatre Company, Barrow Group, Weston Playhouse, CAP21, Gorilla Rep etc. and are included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection. Songs heard at 54 BELOW, Symphony Space, Signature Theatre Ctr, 42West, The Triad, Toshi's Living Room. Member: Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project (founder), BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop (alum).

As a performer, she has been breaking the color barrier in non-traditionally cast roles for over 25 years, and has been featured extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, in film, television, and concerts worldwide. Highlights include the New York revivals of THE MUSIC MAN, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, PACIFIC OVERTURES, and FALSETTOLAND, the national tours of CATS, FLOWER DRUM SONG and BOMBAY DREAMS, and leading roles at some of the most well-respected theatres across the country including the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Huntington Theatre, Yale Rep, The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Minnesota Opera and New York City Opera. Nearly 100 film and television appearances include THE AMERICANS, two years as “Lisa West” on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, SMASH, 666 PARK AVENUE, 30 ROCK, UGLY BETTY, THE BIG C, FRINGE, ROYAL PAINS, CROSSING JORDAN and many episodes of various LAW AND ORDERS.

Christine was honored by the JACL (the nation’s largest and oldest Asian American civil rights organization) in 2010 for “exemplary leadership and dedication”, the “Wai Look Award for Service in the Arts” from the Asian American Arts Alliance in 2012, and the Rosetta LeNoire Award for “outstanding artistic contributions to the universality of the human spirit in American theatre” from Actors’ Equity Association, in 2013. She serves on the board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, and as part of the elected leadership of Actors’ Equity Association, is National Chair of the union’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Christine is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Certificate of Screenwriting Program at NYU.

For more information, please visit www.christinetoyjohnson.com.