Frankie Johnson (Director)

Frankie Johnson is an actress, writer, and director based in New York City. She’s directed for Boogiemanja Sketch Collective since 2019, and currently directs the team Both Hands. She also directed the award-winning solo show I’m Just Kidney-ing by Amanda Nicastro which completed a successful run at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as the filmed version of her follow-up show Rogue None at Under St. Marks. She is the librettist and director of the musical dark comedy The Hills Are Alive!, which had successful runs at both the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival and the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her Sci-fi buddy comedy pilot, Flying Blind (co-written with Sarah Morgan Ashey), was a winner of the First Ten Pages Competition and her web series Dead Space was a finalist for the 2018 Sundance/YouTube New Voices Lab. Her 10-episode webseries Followers can currently be found on Vimeo and you should watch it because it is hilarious. Her work has been performed at several venues around NYC, including Linney Theatre (Signature Center), The Peoples Improv Theater, Theatre 80, Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, and The Tank.