Patrice Johnson Chevannes

Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Emi) is an award-winning, Jamaican-American actress, writer, filmmaker, director, and executive producer of God-and-all-o-wee Productions and Ubigwitus Records. Broadway: The Crucible, dir. Sir Richard Eyre (Liam Nelson, Laura Linney). She played Desdemona opposite Sir Patrick Stewart in a photo negative production of Othello (Shakespeare Theater).  Off Broadway: Tamburlaine I & II (Sir Michael Boyd/dir.); Pericles

(Sir Trevor Nunn/dir.); Coriolanus (Karin Coonrod/dir.) 

Awards/ Nominations: 2025 Elliot Norton nomination The Grove (The Huntington); 2023 Lucille Lortel Award nomination Endgame (Irish Repertory Theater); 2020 Drama Desk and Drama League nominations runboyrun/In Old Age (NYTW); 2020 Audelco nomination for Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Atlantic Theater); Audelco Award For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…..(New Federal Theater). 

TV/Film: POSE, SHRILL, EVIL, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good Fight. Patrice has written and directed three award-winning films: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry, and Hill and Gully. Patrice teaches MfA Acting at The New School; Public speaking at Columbia University to Obama Foundation Scholars; She collaborates with Columbia World Projects and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation teaching public speaking to medical professionals in Africa from WomenLift Health. Patrice is a member of The Actors Center.