Albany State University Alumnus Maurice Johnson Brings Movie Screening to ASU

Albany State University (ASU) is hosting a community screening of the new film, Jones Plantation on Wednesday, November 15, at 6:30 PM, in the Billy C. Black Auditorium on East Campus. The screening is free admission 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 (’01). The screening at ASU will kick off a National HBCU Tour for the film. Johnson will also present a Film and Entertainment Master Class to the ASU theatre program. 

ASU alumnus and former Golden Ram Football player Maurice Johnson (’01) has made a name for himself in television and film. Johnson 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 the movie, “Jones Plantation,” Johnson plays the lead role of a brilliant sociopath and true genius who specializes in deception and mind control.

Johnson is excited about bringing his newest film, “Jones Plantation,” to his alma mater, saying, “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. 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, GA, Johnson attended ASU on a football scholarship, graduating with a degree in Speech and Theater in 2001. He is a notable and proud 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 Melconcon’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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