Patrice Johnson

Patrice Johnson Chevannes, is an award winning, actress, writer, director and producer who was born in Jamaica and raised in New York City along with her eight brothers and sisters. She started her undergraduate career at Cornell University, where she discovered that acting and not aerospace engineering was her calling. Leaving Cornell, she completed her Bachelors in Performing Arts at The City College of New York. She has done numerous plays on and off the Broadway Stage, where she has shared the stage with acclaimed actors such as Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, in The Crucible. Patrice played Desdemona, to Sir Patrick Stewart's Othello, in what is historically called a photo negative production of Shakespeare's Othello. She has worked with Sir Richard Eyre, Jude Kelly, Sir Michael Boyd, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter Sellars and many other amazing directors. In 2002, Patrice became passionate about hearing the Caribbean accent on film. She longed to see and hear the people she had grown up ar