Ray Johnson

The Tank Announces Programming for Eco-Forward Festivals TRASHFEST & DARKFEST 2022

The Tank announced programming for their eco-forward festivals, TrashFest and DarkFest, from Saturday July 30 – Sunday August 7, 2022. Both festivals will take place in-person at The Tank NYC.

UNA NOCHE EN TEJAS Heads To The Brisk Festival LA!

Kevin Ray Johnson's (The Unpredictable Times) Award Winning 10 Minute Play Una Noche en Tejas - When Beyonce Met Selena, will be heading to The Brisk Festival LA this April at The Morgan Wixson Theater in Santa Monica, California.

UNA NOCHE EN TEJAS Heads To The 2021 NY Theater Festival

Kevin Ray Johnson's (The Unpredictable Times) 10 Minute Play Una Noche en Tejas - When Beyonce Met Selena (which recently premiered at The 2021 Equity Library Theatre Fall Virtual Play Festival) will be heading to The New York Theater Festival's 2021 Winterfest, Off-Off Broadway at The Latea Theater this December.

Parity Productions Announces Commission Award Winners and More!

Theatre production company Parity Productions, the only New York theatre company that ensures that they fill at least 80% of the creative roles on their own productions—playwrights, directors, and designers—with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists and offers free tools to encourage the rest of the theatre industry to do the same, has awarded two commissions to Kelley Nicole Girod for This Stretch of Montpelier and M Sloth Levine for At Hotel MacGuffin. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, November 10th as a hybrid event over zoom and in person at the Manny Cantor Center.

Full Cast Announced For Industry Presentation Of BIRDIE & TIM

Two Industry Presentations of Kevin Ray Johnson's Romantic Holiday Comedy Birdie and Tim are scheduled for Sunday, December 5th at 7:30 & 9:15 pm in New York City.

Parity Productions to Premiere Filmed Production of MIRRORS by Azure D. Osborne Lee at 2021 Awards Ceremony & Celebration

Parity Productions will premiere the filmed stage production of the world premiere play MIRRORS by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, 2018 Parity Commission Winner, at their 2021 Awards Ceremony and Celebration (AC&C) on Wednesday, November 10th.

Rebecca L. Hargrove and Peterson Townsend Will Lead Industry Presentation of BIRDIE AND TIM

*Rebecca L. Hargrove, who recently appeared in Academy Award Nominee Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in my Bones and in The Grammy Award Winning production (& will be performing in the upcoming 2021 revival) of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at The Metropolitan Opera and *Peterson Townsend who starred as Jeffery in the world premiere of America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of The American Negro at The Barrington Stage Company will play the title roles of Birdie and Tim, respectively, in the upcoming industry presentations of Birdie & Tim - a new play by Kevin Ray Johnson.

'Ray Johnson c/o' to be Presented at the Art Institute of Chicago

Dubbed “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a pioneer of mail art, a groundbreaking figure in the worlds of Fluxus and Conceptual Art, and an early Pop artist whose use of celebrity imagery heralded Andy Warhol’s own appropriation in the 1960s.

THE UNPREDICTABLE TIMES Will Make Alaska Premiere This August

Kevin Ray Johnson's coming-of-age drama which recently premiered at Rise Above Performing Arts Summer Professional Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, will be heading 5,000 miles west this August to make its Alaska premiere at The Pier One Theatre in Homer, Alaska.

Full Company Set For THE UNPREDICTABLE TIMES Regional Premiere

The Full Company has been announced for Kevin Ray Johnson's The Unpredictable Times, which has had numerous readings and workshops over the past decade, will make its regional premiere June 18-27, 2021 at Rise Above Performing Arts Summer Professional Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.