Rasean Davonté Johnson
is a video artist and designer of projections, scenery, and sound for theatre, film, and installations. Based in Chicago, his practice eightinfinitystudio specializes in design, video engineering, consultation, rental, and content creation for the performing arts.
Theatre work includes collaborations with numerous institutions including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manual Cinema, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, MASSMoCA, ArtsEmerson, Huntington Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Opera, Yale Cabaret, Yale Summer Cabaret, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, The McCarter Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Alliance Theatre, The Ningbo Song and Dance Company, Teatro Vista, Timeline Theatre Company, The Hypocrites, Porchlight Music Theatre, Halcyon Theatre, Redtwist Theatre, and many more.
In addition to design for theatre he has also worked on several video installations including The March to Liberation at the New York Philharmonic, We Are All In This Together: Shutdown, Crisis, Restart as a part of WonderWall at Bay Street Theatre, Living Sculpture as part of LUX: Ideas through Light at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, and Juniper Ascending at Yale University, and collaborative works including The Ballad of Lula Del Ray 2.0 with Manual Cinema at the Logan Arts Center, Convergence: A mad tea pARTy at the Yale Art Gallery, and Passenger featured at the University of Chicago and the Bridgeport Film Festival.
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, he is a graduate of The Ohio State University where he studied primarily as actor, director, and cinematographer in film. His film The Price of Pride was an Official Selection for the Columbus International Film Festival in 2007. He received his masters of fine arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in Design, and has lectured at Yale University, Columbia College Chicago, Syracuse University, Boston University, The Theatre School at Depaul, and the Ohio State University. He is Senior Instructional Professor and Head of Design in the Theatre and Performance Studies department at the University of Chicago.
He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
