Christopher "CJ" Johnson

CJ Johnson is an award-winning Sydney and Los-Angeles based film director and screenwriter. His film directing credits include The Bris, Steamboat, Saturday Night Newtown Sunday Morning Enmore, The Game, Do Not Pass Go, Before The Rain (feature), Marysville's Gone, Natural Selection and Spring Bride. A graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, he has also had a prolific career as a playwright in Australia, with plays including The Dog Logs, Backpacker, Barnesy the Harbour and You, The Young Tycoons and La La Land. He won the Canberra International Short Film Festival and the Bondi Short Film Festival for his film Saturday Night Newtown Sunday Morning Enmore. He has feature length screenplays in late development / early pre-production with producers Kelly Chapman and Don Reynolds and is represented in Australia by Cameron Creswell. As a theatre director he has worked with Gale Edwards, Richard Wherrett, the Sydney Theatre Company and has a longstanding relationship with the Darlinghurst Theatre Company, where his plays have received eight productions.

External links:

CJ Johnson on IMDB 1 CJ Johnson playwriting and theare directing website 2 Saturday Night Newtown Sunday Morning Enmore 3 The Game 4 Spring Bride 5 Do Not Pass Go 6 Natural Selection 7

Sources:

Screen Australia, Saturday Night Newtown Sunday Morning Enmore 8 Screen Australia, The Game 9