Millicent Johnnie, an award-winning choreographer and director of theatre and film, currently receiving her MFA in film production at Florida State University. Prior to her entering film school her approach to filmmaking grew directly out of her early childhood experiences growing up in segregated southern Louisiana. She went on to join Urban Bush Women, first as a resident choreographer, and later touring as the ensemble’s Associate Artistic director. She has also served as a choreographer for Walt Disney Creative Entertainment’s Frozen: Live at the Hyperion; has worked A & R in the music industry through Marvelous Enterprises; performed at the 2016 Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro; and choreographed the feature film, Scary Movie 5 and more recently choreographed “Thoughts of a Colored Man”, a Broadway-bound play produced by Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage.