Author Archives: thatkell

Johnny has been working on film, TV, and recording projects and is taking a hiatus from theatre this summer to travel, spend time with his family, and work on two projects of passion: an American training manual to performing European Classical … Continue reading →

cement, love, nothing else United Story: Boston Beyond Today By Danny Bryck Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) 539 Tremont Street Boston, Mass. April 29, 2015, at 7 p.m. Free, with a $10 donation suggested Proceeds will go to Better Opportunities Inc … Continue reading →

Yet What I Sowed: Forgotten Voices of the Civil Rights Movement The Poets’ Theatre With Benjamin Evett Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center 41 Second St. Cambridge, Mass. March 28, 2015 Click here to buy tickets for What I Sowed

Walking the Tightrope Stoneham Theatre By Mike Kenney Directed by Caitlin Lowans Stoneham Theatre 395 Main St. Stoneham, Mass. March 12 – 21, 2015 Click here to buy tickets for Walking the Tightrope  

Johnny has been nominated for Best Actor in a Midsize Company Drama for playing Simon in New Rep’s production of The Whipping Man, directed by Benny Sato Ambush. Other actors nominated with him are Jason Bowen for  Phaedra (Actors’ Shakespeare … Continue reading →

1. Live: As Paul Olamina and Taylor Bankole in a dramatic reading of Octavia Butler’s The Parable, adapted and directed by renowned playwright Ifa Bayeza, on February 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Swan Hall in Swan Auditorium at the University of … Continue reading →

1. Live: As Malvolio in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Tennessee Shakespeare Company, directed by Dan McCleary, on December 11-21 at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ Winegardner Auditorium. 2. On TV: As Reverend Theodore Dempsey in the Law & Order episode “DWB” (Season 9, Episode 2). December … Continue reading →

1. Live: As Hastings, Tyrell, and Norfolk in William Shakespeare’s Richard III at Tennessee Shakespeare Company, directed by David Dempke, on November 1 at the Duncan-Williams Performance Hall at the GPAC (Germantown Performing Arts Center). 2. On TV: As Reverend Theodore Dempsey in the Law & … Continue reading →

1. Live: As Hastings, Tyrell, and Norfolk in William Shakespeare’s Richard III at Tennessee Shakespeare Company, directed by David Dempke, on October 30 and 31 at the Duncan-Williams Performance Hall at the GPAC (Germantown Performing Arts Center). 2. On TV: As “Joliet” Jake Blues’s … Continue reading →

1. Live: At a staged reading of David Nanto’s Much Ado About Love: A Romantic Comedy in Shakespeare’s Verse in the Frederick Loewe Room of the Dramatists Play Service, 1501 Broadway #7, New York on September 17 at 7:30 p.m. 2. On … Continue reading →