[1] He currently serves as a director and junior partner for Dino Stamatopoulos's animation production studio Starburns Industries in Burbank, California.

Between his second and third years at St John Vianney, he attended a summer film course at Columbia College Chicago.

[6] After graduating, he spent three years working as a waiter in a New York restaurant before moving to Los Angeles, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2006.

[8] Johnson has been nominated for Annie Awards in 2011 and 2012 for directing stop-motion episodes of shows such as Mary Shelley's Frankenhole and Community.

[10][11] Johnson made his solo directing debut with the upcoming film The Actor, based on the 2010 novel Memory by Donald E.