Draft:Dwayne Johnson-Cochran

Dwayne Johnson-Cochran is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director. Active since the early 1990s, Johnson-Cochran’s work includes the 2023 Showtime film Heist 88 (Writer, Executive Producer), Love and Action in Chicago, (1999, Director, Producer, Writer), and the NBC television series Minor Adjustments (Created By), in which comedian Rondell Sheridan starred and co-created.

Born and raised in Chicago, Johnson-Cochran attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, before beginning his career writing and producing news documentaries at Chicago’s WTTW-TV . There, Johnson-Cochran covered the 1988 heist/embezzlement of a then-record $70 Million from the Bank of Chicago. Chicago swindler Armond Moore persuaded several young African American low-level employees of the bank to help facilitate the heist, which was temporarily successful, before all participants were caught and nearly all funds were recovered. These events inspired Johnson-Cochran’s Heist 88, starring Courtney B. Vance as a character loosely based on Moore.

Johnson-Cochran has prominently featured Chicago in his work, including the 1992 un-produced screenplay My Tribe Is Lost, purchased by Stephen Spielberg’s company. The Chicago Tribune said of Johnson-Cochran’s 2014 documentary feature on Chicago jazz artist Kahil El’Zabar: “Be Known belongs to the small category of films that not only respect jazz but illuminate it.”

In addition to filmmaking and producing, Johnson has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, including the popular course “How to Survive as a Screenwriter.” He has also taught screenwriting in Nairobi, Kenya ; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Perm, Russia; and Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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