Mikelle Johnson

Miki Johnson was born in the small town of Green, Ohio. Her first acting gig was a one-off in high school, where she played The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.  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 set about setting the town on fire with her extraordinary performances at The Catastrophic Theatre, where she is a company member, and at Stages Repertory Theatre.  In her first year here, she was named "Best Actress" by The Houston Press, in its annual "Best of Houston" issue.  With Catastrophic, Miki has appeared in Endgame, Crave, Bluefinger, The Designated Mourner, Our Late Night, Spirits to Enforce and Big Death and Little Death.  At Stages, she appeared in Mr. Marmalade and Oh! The Humanity.  Miki's next original play, to be produced by Catastrophic Theatre this fall, is Fleaven.  A rhyming, beat, hip-hop, disco affair, it features characters named Seven and Heaven and Stick and Sock and "the town's town villain" Flame.  And it takes place in a town that is a mall.  Miki lives in the Historic Sixth Ward in Houston with her partner Jason, their dog Fonzie, and their cats Jeff and Steve.