Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony honored, Obie, Rosetta LeNoire, JACL, and Asian American Arts Alliance award-winning writer, actor, director, filmmaker and advocate for inclusion.

Her plays and libretti have been developed with the Roundabout Theatre Company, The O'Neill Theater Center, Prospect Theater Company, Goodspeed Opera, Village Theatre, Ars Nova, Greater Boston Stage Company, the Abingdon, Crossroads Theatre, Leviathan Lab, Diverse City Theatre Company, Barrow Group, Weston Playhouse, Gorilla Rep, CAP21 etc.,are included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection, and published by NoPassport Press, Smith & Kraus, Rowman & Littlefield, and Applause Books. In 2016, she won a fellowship in the Meryl Streep/IRIS Screenwriting Lab.

Member: Dramatists Guild (Treasurer), ASCAP, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Asian American Theatre Artists Collective (Founder) Asian American Musical Theater Writers Project (founder), BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop (alum). Christine was the Executive Producer and Co-Director with her husband, filmmaker Bruce Johnson, of TRANSCENDING – THE WAT MISAKA STORY, the award-winning documentary feature film about Japanese American basketball star Wat Misaka, the first person of color to be drafted into what is now the NBA by the 1947 New York Knicks.

As a performer, she has been breaking the color barrier in non-traditionally cast roles for over 30 years, and has been featured extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, National tours, in regional theatres across the country, in film, television, and concerts worldwide.

An avid advocate of inclusion, Christine serves as Treasurer of the Dramatists Guild and as chair of the Guild's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access committee. She is a founding steering committee member of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition) and is in the inaugural cohort of the Dramatist Guild Foundation's Catalyst for Change Fellowship. She has received multiple grant awards in support of her work from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (13), The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (4), The Puffin Foundation (3), The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (3), Asian Women Giving Circle, The Open Meadows Foundation, and The Boomerang Fund for Artists.

She was honored by the JACL (the nation’s largest and oldest Asian American civil rights organization) in 2010 for “exemplary leadership and dedication”, the Asian American Arts Alliance in 2012 for “Outstanding Service in the Arts”, and received the 2013 Rosetta LeNoire Award from Actors’ Equity Association for “outstanding artistic contributions to the universality of the human experience in the American theatre”. AAPAC received an Obie for their collective work in diversity, equity and inclusion in 2020 and a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre in 2022. Christine is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Certificate of Screenwriting Program at NYU.

Christine is the host of The Dramatists Guild's podcast TALKBACK, distributed on the Broadway Podcast Network.

For more information, please visit www.christinetoyjohnson.com. Twitter/Insta: @CToyJ