Cast & Creative Team – Invisible Life: The Musical

About the Creatives

PROTEUS X
CURATOR

“If we were all honest, we would all acknowledge that we live a part of our lives… INVISIBLE.”

Producer/Writer/Director

Proteus X conceived and developed INVISIBLE LIFE: The Musical and holds the exclusive Intellectual Property Rights to the complete catalog of New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris—spanning all 16 of his novels.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Proteus X is an Ex-Hollywood Casting Director (Disappearing Acts, Soul Food). HBO Executive Producer. Paramount Pictures Executive Producer (Screenwriter).
Ex-Model (VIBE, The SOURCE, EBONY, CROSS COLOURS, VERSACE).

Proteus X produced the critically acclaimed musical Sanctified at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.

JAVON JOHNSON

Producer/Writer/Director

Currently starring as Richard Hallsen in Tyler Perry’s hit BET drama The Oval, Javon Johnson is a native of Anderson, South Carolina. Founding Artistic Director of Bear Fruit Conservatory and a founding ensemble member of Chicago’s Congo Square Theatre Company.

A Broadway actor (Lombardi) and protégé of the late August Wilson. Johnson is an award-winning writer whose play Hambone was produced during Victory Gardens Theater’s Tony Award-winning season. His short film Heaven, directed by Chadwick Boseman, earned a nomination from the African Movie Academy Awards.

Johnson co-directed the sold-out Apollo Theater showcase of E. Lynn Harris Invisible Life: The Musical and appeared as the Reverend in Tyler Perry’s film Boo! A Madea Halloween.

New cast Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer.

e'MARCUS HARPER-SHORT
Musical Director

e’Marcus Harper-Short is a GRAMMY Award nominee, Hollywood NAACP Theater Image Award nominee, multi Helen Hayes Award nominee, and a Helen Hayes winning musical director. Career highlights include productions of CROWNS by Regina Taylor, Black Nativity, Dreamgirls, The Wiz, Top dog/Underdog, Dinah Was, da Kink in my Hair, and E. Lynn Harris Invisible Life: The Musical showcase at the
Apollo Theater.

Performances/tours/recordings/television appearances include Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Walter Hawkins, MC Hammer, Tramaine Hawkins.

e’Marcus is also a Helen Hayes nominated sound designer, former Artist in Residence at his alma mater Howard University’s Department of Theater Arts, and currently a United States Special Arts Envoy.