JuCoby Johnson (he/him) is a New York-based playwright, actor, and screenwriter originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Johnson is a second-year playwright in The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. As an actor, he has performed at the Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Jungle Theater, Theater Latté Da, Theater Mu, Ten Thousand Things Theater, and many more. His plays include How It’s Gon Be (Echo Theater, 2023; Underdog Theater, 2019), ...but you could’ve held my hand (upcoming: IAMA Theater, 2026; The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio, 2022; Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2022), 5 (Jungle Theater, 2023; Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2022; Seven Devils Finalist), Heritage (International Black Theater Festival, 2024), The Red Man (2026/2027 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition Winner; Ojai Playwrights Conference, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, Seven Devils Finalist, all 2025), Three-headed Monster (Powers Festival & Pacific Playwrights Festival, both 2026), and Help! Help! Want. Want. Want. (The Playwrights' Center's PlayLabs Festival, 2025; Juilliard's Norman Festival, National Capital New Play Festival, both 2026). His screenwriting credits include The Runarounds (Amazon). Johnson is the recipient of McKnight and Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships, was a finalist for the 2026 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, a member of the 2022 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program, and was part of the inaugural artist cohort at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
“I am interested in what if feels like to imagine yourself as large and immovable as the sky.”
