Chiké Johnson

Chiké Johnson

Chiké Johnson most recently appeared in Seattle Rep’s and Milwaukee Rep’s co-production of Little Women. He is a resident of Chicago, Illinois where he has been blessed to work on many stages. Northlights production of Birthday Candles and Remy Bumppo’s world premier production of Galileo’s Daughter. Chike is also a company member of Remy Bumppo Theatre. Some of Chike’s other Chicago credits: Toni Stone at the Goodman Theatre, The world premier of When Harry Met Rebhab at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Meet Vera Stark at The Goodman Theater, Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the Court Theatre. The Crucible, The Unmentionables and Huck Finn at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He also appeared on stages around the country. He was in Hamlet and A Raisin In The Sun and Improbable Fiction at American Players Theatre. Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre Company. His New York Credits include Broadway productions: A Time To Kill and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Wit. Off Broadway productions include: Runboyrun, Lost In The Stars in New York City Center’s Encores! and Ruined, a co-production by the Manhattan Theatre Club and The Goodman Theatre.

Other regional credits include A Raisin in the Sun at Milwaukee Rep Theater, a revival of The Unmentionables at Yale Repertory Theatre; Lincoln in Topdog/Underdog at Renaissance Theaterworks; Duke of Cornwall in King Lear at Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Cephus Miles in Home at In Tandem Theatre; Willie in Master Harold and the boys at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; and Martin Luther King, Jr. in Smoldering Fires at First Stage Children’s Theater. Some of Mr. Johnson’s film credits include Friends with Benefits, Sleepwalk with Me, The Machinist and his television credits include Law & Order, Girls, Veep and Prison Break and much more.