Patrice Johnson Chevannes

Patrice Johnson Chevannes is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based filmmaker, actress, writer, educator, director and the founder and executive producer of God-and-all-o-wee Productions. She was born in Jamaica, West Indies, grew up in New York City and started her undergraduate career at Cornell University, where she discovered that acting and not engineering was her calling. She studied acting at The City College of New York (CUNY) BFA Program  graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

Patrice has shared the stage with acclaimed actors such as Academy Award Nominees, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in The Crucible and Sir Patrick Stewart, opposite whom she played Desdemona, in Othello.  She has collaborated with acclaimed directors, Sir Richard Eyre; Sir Trevor Nunn; Sir Michael Boyd; John Ortiz; Rebecca Taichman and SITI Company's, Anne Bogart.  Patrice was also honored to be a part of Kristin Linklater’s acting company, The Company Of Women.  In 2020, Patrice garnered Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for her work in Mfoniso Udofia's, runboyrun/In Old Age, and an Audelco nomination for her role in Stephen Adly Guirgis', Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven. 

Patrice can be seen in the NetFlix drama, Chambers, POSE, SHRILL, EVIL and in Showtime's upcoming THE FIRST LADIES.  

Patrice has coached professional and aspiring actors in voice, speech, articulation, audition preparation and acting technique.  She also has worked with a variety of professionals including lawyers, doctors, teachers, academics and entrepreneurs in preparing for their public speaking engagements including TedX presentations and Keynote addresses.  Patrice currently teaches acting in The School of Drama at The New School.