Deb Johnson(I)
- Writer
Deb Johnson is the Instructor of CMT223 - Media Production Services at
Dona Ana Community college and the screenwriter of Modern Princess. She
is also a prolific visual artist and creates in digital painting and 3D
modeling, but she began in oil paints and various ceramic clay and she
also creates in paper, cloth, and found objects.
Deb enjoys cooperative projects and often pursues those for charitable organizations. She produced her own solo art exhibition and raised fifteen-hundred dollars for Casa de Peregrinos Food Bank as her first act of professional community service after completing her undergraduate studies. She's been addicted to altruism ever since.
She is writing for Dr. Phil Lewis' documentary Retablo: Painting My Miracle and creating a cooperative community scriptwriting concept for a developing film project. Deb also works often on documentaries and music videos with her husband, cinematographer Scott Saiz and wrote for his short documentary Modern Maya.
She loves to write fictional comedy and her Modern Princess is under consideration by two east-coast independent production companies. Amazon distributes Deb's books: Lobsterville, Anthology - A Lifetime of Emotion Through Poetry, and Humanity Strikes Again - ShortStories about Human Behavior.
Deb completed her undergraduate studies at New Mexico State University where she earned her BA in Studio Arts, her BFA in Ceramics and minored in Creative Writing. She graduated as a Crimson Scolar with Honors and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Alpha Chi National Honor Society. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing for Film, Television, Animation, Games and Graphic Novels at Full Sail University. There she won Course Director's Awards in Literary Research, Script Analysis and Criticism, Storytelling and Storyboarding for Animation, and Portolio II. She graduated as Class Salutatorian.
Deb grew up in a military family and spent her middle childhood living in the Netherlands, where her parents introduced her to the heart of the arts in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, and the great churches of European history. Although she was born on the island of Key West and has lived on the Pacific Shore in Portland, for the time being, she calls the desert of Las Cruces, New Mexico home.
Deb enjoys cooperative projects and often pursues those for charitable organizations. She produced her own solo art exhibition and raised fifteen-hundred dollars for Casa de Peregrinos Food Bank as her first act of professional community service after completing her undergraduate studies. She's been addicted to altruism ever since.
She is writing for Dr. Phil Lewis' documentary Retablo: Painting My Miracle and creating a cooperative community scriptwriting concept for a developing film project. Deb also works often on documentaries and music videos with her husband, cinematographer Scott Saiz and wrote for his short documentary Modern Maya.
She loves to write fictional comedy and her Modern Princess is under consideration by two east-coast independent production companies. Amazon distributes Deb's books: Lobsterville, Anthology - A Lifetime of Emotion Through Poetry, and Humanity Strikes Again - ShortStories about Human Behavior.
Deb completed her undergraduate studies at New Mexico State University where she earned her BA in Studio Arts, her BFA in Ceramics and minored in Creative Writing. She graduated as a Crimson Scolar with Honors and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Alpha Chi National Honor Society. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing for Film, Television, Animation, Games and Graphic Novels at Full Sail University. There she won Course Director's Awards in Literary Research, Script Analysis and Criticism, Storytelling and Storyboarding for Animation, and Portolio II. She graduated as Class Salutatorian.
Deb grew up in a military family and spent her middle childhood living in the Netherlands, where her parents introduced her to the heart of the arts in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, and the great churches of European history. Although she was born on the island of Key West and has lived on the Pacific Shore in Portland, for the time being, she calls the desert of Las Cruces, New Mexico home.