Phyllis Johnson

"Jae"

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TurnSoul.comPhyllis Johnson is an accomplished actress and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama where she won the Fox Family Foundation Grant and The Oliver Thorndike Prize.

Johnson received two 2009 NYIT Award Nominations (Best Featured Actress, Best Ensemble) for her performance in Blue Before Morning.

Johnson was also in competition at Sundance 2009 in a short film selected as one of ten films for public download during the festival, Hug. 

She recently wrapped the feature In Memory of Days to Come with well known French actress Elodie Bouchez, along with several short films bound for the 2010 Film Festival Circuit, including The Nanny and The Cycle.

Johnson has a national Lowe’s commercial running and shot a pilot, The Wedding Album for Fox Television Studios. Johnson has worked on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s A Naked Girl On the Appian Way (dir. Doug Hughes). Off-Broadway she performed Yokastas (LaMama; dir. Richard Schechner); Hecuba (Cultural Arts Center w/ Kristin Linklater). Other NYC credits include: NYSF; EST; NY Stage & Film; Lark Theatre; New Dramatists. Regional: Yale Rep.; Yale Summer Cabaret; Williamstown. Johnson has appeared in several television series and films including: Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, As The World Turns, Jellysmoke (1st Prize: '05 LA Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award Nominee) and La Magique Noire ('05 Film Festival Circuit).

Johnson produced her first feature film I'm Through With White Girls (www.turnsoul.com), which won 15 festival awards, including 7 International AUDIENCE FAVORITE Awards. It is now on Showtime, and available at Blockbuster & Netflix.