BIO

​​Lisa Helmi Johanson is a singer/actor/musician/writer who has a passion for developing new works, authentic storytelling, and intentionality in representation as a means to further the work of racial justice and social equity.

Broadway: Potus, or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive; Off-Broadway/NYC: Avenue Q, Einstein’s Dreams (Original Cast), The Drowning Girls, Three Sisters, Women Beware Women, Rescue Rue. Tours: Fiasco’s Into the Woods, Avenue Q. Select Regional: Anything Goes (Arena Stage), Vietgone (Denver Center), The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Rep; Best Actress award – Milwaukee Broadwayworld), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage), Once (Cape Playhouse), Waterfall (5th Avenue Theatre & Pasadena Playhouse), Priscilla... (Ogunquit & Gateway Playhouses), 4,000 Miles (St. Louis Rep.), Taming of the Shrew (VA Stage). Film/TV: Law & Order: SVU, A Holiday Spectacular (Hallmark Channel), Z-Rock (IFC), The Onion News Network. 

Lisa has spanned out to writing and producing during the pandemic and her first co-written piece, Kim Loo Gets a Redo (IG:@kimlooredo), was selected for the 2021 Ice Factory Festival at the New Ohio Theater in NYC in which she performed in while eight months pregnant. Her second co-written play, The Porch on Windy Hill, received its world premiere at Ivoryton Playhouse fall of '21 with another production coming up in Chicago at Northlight Theatre as part of their 2022-23 season. 

Lisa and her husband are close to launching a sitcom podcast called Preschool (IG:@preschoolsitcom) in which she co-directs, acts, and sound designs. 

She is active in racial justice work in her community and serves on the AAPI Advisory Council for the DA of Queens, NYC. 

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