​Marjorie has created and recreated a wide range of characters across the country and abroad. 

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She has portrayed the role of Candylady in Hoodoo Love (wining best Supporting Actress Audelco Award) at the Cherry Lane Theatre in N.Y.  Other roles include Tituba in the Crucible, at the Capital Rep, in Albany; Queen Clytemnestra at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, N.Y.; Mrs Antrobus in The Skin of our Teeth Delaware Theatre Co. in Wilmington (Philidelphia Critics' Award nomination), Winnie Mandela in M:The Mandela Saga (Lead Actress Audelco Award), Elizabeth in The Old Settler Studio Arena in Buffalo, N. Y., Rose in Fences StageWest in Springfield, Mass; and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Portland. 

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Ms. Johnson also performed at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland in The Pen and the Podium portraying Zora Neale Hurston & Sojourner Truth). 

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Some of her TV and Film credits include Law and Order, NYPD Blue, As the World Turns, The Boiler Room Duplicates, Chrome Soldiers and American Gangster