Miki Johnson
was born in the small town of Green, Ohio. She received her BFA in creative writing at The University of Pittsburgh. While there, she and a friend produced Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, in which she played Winnie. And she's been acting ever since. Miki received her MFA in Acting from Yale University in 2005. Many plays and many cities later, she returned to Pittsburgh to play the lead role in After Mrs. Rochester, where she met her partner Jason. They moved to Houston and she began setting the town on fire with her extraordinary performances at The Catastrophic Theatre and Stages Repertory Theatre. In her first year here, she was named "Best Actress" and later "Best Playwright" by The Houston Press.
She has recently been signed by Antje Oegel at AO International Talent Agency for her writing. One of her newer plays, God is a Good God, has been selected for development at Super Labs, a new play development program co-run by Clubbed Thumb and Playwright's Horizons in NYC. The development workshop will be held in spring, 2014 in New York.
As for on-stage performances, Miki has appeared in Catastrophic's Endgame, Crave, Bluefinger, The Designated Mourner, Our Late Night, Spirits to Enforce, and Big Death and Little Death. At Stages Repertory Theatre, she appeared in Mr. Marmalade and Oh! The Humanity. Miki has had two other plays produced by Catastrophic Theatre in 2012: Fleaven, a hip-hop musical written in rhyme; as well as her play American Falls for which she was awarded Best Playwright of 2012 by the Houston Press at their annual Houston Theatre Awards.
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Fleaven
Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood
The Designated Mourner (2010)
Top Five Things to Do This Weekend
Olivia Flores Alvarez	- Houston Press	(11/2/12)
Miki Johnson on KPFT's LIVING ART
Michael Woodson	- KPFT	(11/2/12)
Miki Johnson discusses her Disco Mall World of Fleaven
Ramon Medina	- Free Press Houston	(10/29/12)
'Fleaven' is Seussian saga – on skates
Everett Evans	- Houston Chronicle	(10/26/12)
Potent Scenes Buoy Catastrophic Theatre's "American Falls"
Everett Evans	- Houston Chronicle	(6/15/12)
Review of Catastrophic's 'American Falls'
John DeMers	- Houston Arts Week	(6/3/12)
Catherine Lu	- KUHA The Front Row	(5/31/12)
A dark, funny new work from Catastrophic Theatre goes behind the white picket fences.
Jim Tommaney	- Houston Press	(5/31/12)
Review: American Falls
David Feil	- Arts + Culture Texas	(5/30/12)
Ghosts, magic shoes and Law & Order: Miki Johnson discovers life in American Falls
Tarra Gaines	- culturemap	(5/25/12)
American Falls playwright & cast
American Falls first rehearsal
Endgame Production Photos
Crave Production Photos
Big Death and Little Death