Johnny Lee Davenport

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 Theatre and researching the life of Ira Aldridge.

For updates on where and when he’s performing for the 2015 – 2016 season, click here.

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
To reserve seats email bostonbeyondtoday@gmail.com

To reserve seats, email bostonbeyondtoday@gmail.com

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

Leading Caleb (Jesse Hinson) and John (Keith Mascoll) in a Passover Seder to celebrate his and John’s newfound freedom (PHOTO: Andrew Brilliant)

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 Project), Ed Hoopman for Dear Elizabeth (Lyric Stage), John Kuntz for The Whale (SpeakEasy Stage), Daver Morrison for Fences (Gloucester Stage), and Alex Pollack in The Flick (Company One).

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 Rhode Island. This is part of a month-long project Black Superheroes: From the Comic Book Universe to the College Campus.

3. Live: Directing Much Ado About Love, David Nanto’s 2014 EMACT award-winning mashup of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, at the Dramatists Guild of America’s Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway #710, New York, at 7:30 p.m.

4.  Online: As the voice over in a trailer featuring the conceptual artwork for his upcoming movie Ascendants, directed by Don Schechter and produced by the Charles River Media Group.

5. On TV: As the M.P. in The Package

February 1 (Sunday) on Encore Action at 12:35 p.m.

6. On TV: As the Husband in Ted.

February 7 (Saturday) on FXX at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
February 8 (Sunday) on FXX at 1 a.m. and 1 p.m.

7. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in The Fugitive.

February 7 (Saturday) on SundanceTV at 9 p.m.
February 8 (Sunday) on SundanceTV at 9:15 a.m.
February 12 (Thursday) on SundanceTV at 7:15 p.m.
February 13 (Friday) on SundanceTV at 2 a.m.

8. On TV: As “Joliet” Jake Blues’s cellmate in The Blues Brothers.

February 8 (Sunday) on VH1 at 12:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.
February 14 (Saturday) on VH1 Classic at 10 p.m.

9. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in U.S. Marshals.

February 13 (Friday) on CMT at 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

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 2 (Tuesday) on WeTV at 7 p.m.
December 19 (Friday) on Sundance TV at 11 p.m.

3. On TV: As the M.P. in The Package

December 3 (Wednesday) on Encore Action at 3 p.m.
December 14 (Sunday) on Encore Action at 4:15 p.m.

4. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in The Fugitive.

December 6 (Saturday) on USA Network at 5 p.m.
December 26 (Friday) on Oxygen at 6 a.m.
December 29 (Monday) on Oxygen at 2:30 p.m.

5. On the Web: As Sebastian in the trailer for the second episode of Ascendants, directed by Don Schechter and produced by Charles River Media Group.

6. On TV: As “Joliet” Jake Blues’s cellmate in The Blues Brothers.

December 21 (Sunday) on VH1 Classic at 7 p.m.
December 25 (Thursday) on VH1 at 8 p.m.
December 26 (Friday) on VH1 at 3 p.m.
December 27 (Saturday) on VH1 Classic at 5:30 p.m.
December 28 (Sunday) on VH1 Classic at 2:30 p.m.

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 & Order episode “DWB” (Season 9, Episode 2).

November 6 (Thursday) on SundanceTV at midnight

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 cellmate in The Blues Brothers.

October 1 (Wednesday) on SundanceTV at 7 p.m.
October 2 (Thursday) on SundanceTV 2 a.m.
October 18 (Saturday) on SundanceTV at 4 p.m.
October 19 (Sunday) on SundanceTV at 2 a.m.
October 22 (Wednesday) on SundanceTV at noon
October 23 (Thursday) on SundanceTV at 8 a.m.
October 30 (Thursday) on SundanceTV at 9:15 a.m.
October 31 (Friday) on SundanceTV at 3 a.m.

3. On TV: As Reverend Theodore Dempsey in the Law & Order episode “DWB” (Season 9, Episode 2).

October 10 (Friday) on SundanceTV at 10 p.m.
October 19 (Sunday) on TNT at 9 a.m.

 4. On TV: As FBI Agent Caleb Williams in Chain Reaction.

October 13 (Monday) on ThrillerMAX at 8:10 p.m.
October 15 (Wednesday) on MoreMAX at 5:40 a.m.
October 19 (Sunday) on MoreMAX at 12:35 p.m.
October 24 (Friday) on MoreMAX at 11:45 a.m.
October 28 (Tuesday) on MoreMAX 9:10 a.m.

5. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in U.S. Marshals.

October 17 (Friday) on WGN America at 8 p.m.
October 28 (Tuesday) on WGN America at 8 p.m.

6. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in The Fugitive.

October 20 (Monday) on Oxygen 3:30 p.m.

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 TV: As FBI Agent Caleb Williams in Chain Reaction.

September 2 (Tuesday) on ActionMAX HD at 9:55 p.m.
September 8 (Monday) on ActionMAX HD at midnight
September 9 (Tuesday) on MovieMAX HD at 11:30 p.m.
September 10 (Wednesday) on ActionMAX HD at 2:25 p.m.
September 15 (Monday) on ActionMAX HD at 6:35 a.m.
September 16 (Tuesday) on MovieMAX HD at 10:45 p.m.
September 20 (Saturday) on ActionMAX HD at 10:40 a.m. and 8 p.m.
September 24 (Wednesday) on MovieMAX HD at 10:45 a.m.
September 26 (Friday) on ActionMAX HD at 6:10 p.m.
September 27 (Saturday) on MovieMAX HD at 4:45 p.m
September 29 (Monday) on ActionMAX HD at 11:45 a.m.

3. On TV: As the M.P. in The Package

September 3 (Wednesday) on Encore Action HD at 12:15 a.m
September 16 (Tuesday) on Encore Action HD at 8:25 a.m.

4. On TV: As the Husband in Ted.

September 3 (Wednesday) on HBO Signature HD at 3:10 a.m.
September 7 (Sunday) on HBO Zone HD at 1:40 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
September 8 (Monday) on HBO Signature at 11 p.m.
September 11 (Thursday) on HBO Signature at 9:30 p.m.
September 14 (Sunday) on HBO at 2 a.m.
September 16 (Tuesday) on HBO Signature at 2:10 a.m.
September 19 (Friday) on HBO Signature HD at 9 p.m.
September 22 (Monday) on HBO at 3:35 a.m.
September 24 (Thursday) on HBO Signature at 1:45 a.m.
September 25 (Friday) on HBO Zone HD at noon and 8 p.m.
September 27 (Sunday) on HBO Signature at 11 p.m.

5. On TV: As U.S. Marshal Henry in The Fugitive.

September 7 (Sunday) on AMC at 2:46 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
September 16 (Tuesday) on AMC at 5:15 p.m.
September 17 (Wednesday) on AMC at 12:45 p.m.
September 28 (Sunday) on AMC at midnight

6. On TV: As Reverend Theodore Dempsey in the Law & Order episode “DWB” (Season 9, Episode 2).

September 17 (Wednesday), WeTV at 6 p.m.

7. On TV: As “Joliet” Jake Blues’s cellmate in The Blues Brothers.

September 17 (Wednesday) on VH1 Classic at 8 p.m.
September 20 (Saturday) on VH1 at 10 p.m.
September 21 (Sunday) on VH1 at 2:10 p.m.
September 22 (Monday) on VH1 Classic at 8 p.m.
September 23 (Tuesday) on VH1 Classic at 4 p.m.
September 25 (Thursday) on VH1 at 12:50 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.