Albany State alumnus Maurice Johnson to screen movie at ASU
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ALBANY — Albany State University is hosting a community screening of the new film “Jones Plantation” on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., in the Billy C. Black Auditorium on ASU’s East Campus.
The screening is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the Albany community. A question-and-answer session will be held after the screening with actor, producer and ASU alumnus Maurice Johnson. The screening at ASU will kick off a National HBCU Tour for the film. Johnson also will present a Film and Entertainment Master Class to the ASU theatre program.
A former Golden Ram Football player, Johnson has made a name for himself in television and film. He has had roles in “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS’s “Good Girls,” NBC’s “Chicago Fire” and “Game of Silence,” ABC’s “Devious Maids,” “The Catch” and “Nashville,” and has also acted in Tyler Perry’s “For Better or Worse” and TV One’s “Born Again Virgin.” In “Jones Plantation,” Johnson plays the lead role of a brilliant sociopath and true genius who specializes in deception and mind control.
Johnson said he is excited about bringing his newest film to his alma mater.
“I am purposefully bringing this film to the ASU community because of its timeliness in the society and political climate that we are living in and experiencing daily,” he said. “This will begin the dialogue amongst our campus and community about the world we live in and how we have to be change agents at Albany State and beyond.
“ASU will be the backdrop and the first school to kick off this HBCU tour in the auditorium where I did my first production.”
Originally from Augusta, Johnson attended ASU on a football scholarship, graduating with a degree in Speech and Theater in 2001. He is a member of the Chi Epsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at ASU and currently makes his home in Los Angeles and Atlanta.
Johnson initially fell in love with acting after stepping on stage in his first play, Thomas Meloncon’s “Diary of Black Men.” He was first seen on the Silver Screen in “Joyful Noise” (2012) opposite Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton.
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