Rachael Henry Johnson

     Rachael Henry Johnson is a performer, director, choreographer, and teaching artist based part-time in Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn,NY. She is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. 

     As a performer, Rachael has worked regionally throughout the midwest and east coast. Past favorite roles include Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, Mrs. Sowerberry in Oliver!, Logainne in The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, and originating the role of Dee's Sister in A (Funny) Imagination!. Rachael has also had the honor to have worked with Musical Theatre International and Disney to film the Lion King Jr. Choreography DVD where she portrayed Zazu. 

     Rachael also has extensive experience working as a choreographer, director, and teaching artist as well. Most recently she choreographed Oklahoma! at Harmony Dinner Theater in Hilsboro, IN. She has spent two summers working at the world-renowned French Woods Festival of the Arts performing arts summer camp where she worked as a dance teacher and choreographer. Rachael was also the resident choreographer as well as occasional director for Rise Above Performing Arts in Sarasota, FL for the first 6 years of its existence, having helped found the youth community theatre. She has received several local and regional awards for her work as a choreographer including a national excellence in Choreography award from the National Junior Theatre Festival at only 17 years old. Rachael has been choreographing as well as teaching theatre and working with children since the age of 14. 

     Rachael loves working in the theatre business whether it is onstage as a performer, offstage as a director/choreographer, or backstage as a stage manager. She has even worked as a child wrangler at the Metropolitan Opera. She also absolutely loves teaching children in the arts providing them with outlets for their creativity and emotional expression and inspiring the next generation of artists. Her other interests include reading, writing, archery, crafting, American Sign Language, and social justice.