his own story into the play as he was told that his relationship to the subjects was compelling. The play had its premiere in April 2010. He won the 2010 Bert Williams Award for Best Solo Performance in a Play from The Black Theater Alliance Awards. In 2011, the show had a four-week run at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Making Sweet Tea Starting back in 2013, possibly earlier, Johnson was working on Making Sweet Tea, a documentary film following the updates of men he interviewed in the 2000s. It is a collaborative effort with John L. Jackson Jr., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, Professor of Africana Studies, and Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. It was completed with the university's Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA). Jackson saw Johnson performing his one-man play and told him he should incorporate his story in with those of the men he was reporting on "to create the film adaptation of the process and your relationship to the men, of the experiences and interactions that help define black, gay life in the South." The film covers seven men Johnson had interviewed as well as his own story in the 90-minute feature. The film also goes back to Johnson's hometown of Hickory, North Carolina, where he got his start, and developed an interest in oral histories from his grandmother. The score came from Guthrie Ramsey, a music professor at the university, and singer-songwriter Vince Anthony. Making Sweet Tea by directors John L. Jackson Jr. and doctoral student Nora Gross, will had its world premiere in September 2019 as part of the Reeling LGBTQ film festival, the world's second oldest LGBTQ film festival, where it won their Silver Image award. See also Don't ask, don't tell Down-low (sexual slang) Men who have sex with men Spoken word References 2008 non-fiction books Culture of the Southern United States LGBT African-American culture Gay non-fiction books LGBT history in the United States History of the Southern United States Oral history books