Toni Ann Johnson

Toni Ann Johnson's novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. She won the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Most Inspirational Fiction. Her stage plays have been produced by The Negro Ensemble Company (co-author "Here in My Father's House"), The New York Stage and Film Company ("Gramercy Park is Closed to the Public"), and in Los Angeles by The Fountainhead Theatre Company. Johnson is the recipient of two Humanitas Prizes and a Christopher Award for her screenplays Ruby Bridges, for Disney/ABC and Crown Heights, for Showtime Television. She wrote the Fox Television pilot Save The Last Dance and she co-wrote the feature film Step Up 2: The Streets. Johnson's essays and short fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Xavier Review, Callaloo Journal, and elsewhere. She's been a Sundance Screenwriter's Lab Fellow, as well as a Callaloo Fellow in fiction at Brown University. Johnson has received additional support for her writing from The Prague Summer Program for Writers and the One-Story Summer Conference in Brooklyn. She teaches screenwriting at The University of Southern California.