I have recently performed in the season finale of Heartland, Season 16, as well as providing the voice to characters in Cardfight: Vanguard! Overdress and the upcoming season of Kongsuni and Friends. I have also recently voiced a variety of commercials, including for Travel Alberta and Alberta Milk. I was most recently on stage in 2019’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with Alberta Theatre Projects, where I performed as the White Witch as well as serving as the Fight Director.
I also worked as a Fight Director on many shows in Calgary’s 2022-2023 theatre season: The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, Richard III with The Shakespeare Company, Teenage Dick and The Jungle Book with Alberta Theatre Projects, Forgiveness with Theatre Calgary, Ministry of Grace with Making Treaty 7, and The Extractionist and Murder on the Orient Express with Vertigo Theatre. In addition to these productions, I fight directed a variety of high school and other youth productions, as well as teaching several high school workshops in stage combat.
Other recent work includes the Asylum original series Black Summer in which I was both a Co-Star and Stunt Actor, which is on Netflix, as well as performing on Wynonna Earp and the indie features #PartyTime and Damned Rites. I earned Betty Mitchell Award nominations for my work Fight Directing Lunchbox Theatre‘s All I Want for Christmas and Ghost River Theatre‘s production of GIANT.
In preparation for GIANT, I undertook professional wrestling training with Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling in Vancouver. I have completed substantial Academy of Fight Directors Canada training, and hold certification as a Fight Instructor as well as being a registered Fight Director.
In addition to what I’ve mentioned above, I have worked as an actor or fight director with almost every company in Calgary, including Alberta Theatre Projects, Lunchbox Theatre, Making Treaty 7, The Shakespeare Company, Theatre Calgary, Ground Zero/Hit & Myth Production, Sage Theatre‘s Ignite! Festival, Birnton Theatricals/Stage West for Kids, DeFakto Theatre Company, Storybook Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park (now Shakespeare by the Bow), the Calgary Fringe Festival, Search Tower Company, Hoodlum Theatre, the Calgary Common Ground Festival, and Mount Royal University.
Additionally, I worked as an Artist in Residence with Trickster Theatre in Calgary for 8 years, and am currently a performer with YYCPrincess.
Skinner, the Cave Puppets short film I was a part of was accepted into the 2016 Edmonton Film Festival of Fear, and I am very excited and honoured to have won the award for Best Actress in a Short Film, as well as the film being nominated for Best Short Film.
I am incredibly honoured to have received a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for my work in The Money Shot, as well as with the cast of The Crucible which won its nomination for Best Production of a Play.
Brianna Johnston 